Garbology by Edward Humes ch. 4 review

 Finally after reading chapter 4 of Garbology, Humes discuses at least one solution for the garbage crisis. He begins by bringing up David Steiner "CEO of the world's largest trash company"(83). And this man is all about the money, but what was interesting to me is how he said that land fills are the solution. Then I thought "how can they be the solution? don't we want to put an end to them?" however Humes mentioned how long ago in the 70's they wanted to solve the crisis using landfills as well. By using the trash from the landfills to make new materials thus making money as well. But they didn't end up going threw with the idea because they didn't know how it would play out. "landfilling was comparatively cheap and easy, while switching to the close-the-loop system the EPA recommended so long ago would be risky and difficult, and involve unkown conversion costs"(86). Of course we would use the easy way than make a difference. Now this whole idea really got me thinking how its not to late for our world, because in reality not many of us can agree that a solution would be to buy less. America is addicted to shopping. So the next solution can be (as Humes mentions) To use the trash as fuel for cars, or energy to power cities, and yes even renewing old materials. We have the technology and scientist today to figure this out.