Garbology by Edward Humes Ch.3 Review

      In Chapter 3 of Garbology, Humes illustrates to us the source of the issue that is overflow of trash in the world. And once again he brings to attention as to what are needs and what are wants and how this contributes to the overflow of garbage. Its no secrete that T.V is the main contribution that programs us to spend more on "needs" thus adding more trash to landfills. So why do we continue to spend on stuff that is not a necessity? Because we are persuaded to believe that all this stuff is a necessity, from the latest phone to the latest fashions. They are believed to be part of the "American Dream". "Persuading people to throw away perfectly good things in order to buy replacements promoted as bigger, bolder, and better"(64). People want more and more, and learning how to control our wants is a start to fix the trash situation. Furthermore, Humes gives us a little history lesson again, something I like to call Trash 101. He writes about how plastic invaded landfills and how the plastic found in landfills in the 60's was lower than today. What shocked  me was the fact that around the 50's and 60's there was people (scavengers) that would clean out peoples trash and use whatever they found in there to survive. However there was no need for these scavengers soon after because Garbage trucks would soon be invented, thus the growth of the land fill.