Response to "The Incinerator as Eye candy" article

I honestly wouldn't really mind if one of these state of the art plants was located by my home. As long as it's not hurting my family and community I'm fine with it. Besides all it does is provide heat and hot water to the buildings. Plus the buildings look pretty cool and futuristic.

Garbology Ch.9 Review

    I have to say that chapter 9 has been one of my favorite chapters to read. Its was cool to read how artist can make a difference in the world wide trash epidemic. In this chapter is discussed how many artist have gone to landfills to gather materials to create beautiful pieces of art. That's an amazing idea of how to make trash useful and beautiful. When I was a little boy I remember haw my father would go out into the town dump to find things we can us and that were in good condition. Which after reading Garbology its highly likely that most things in dumps and landfills are useful. One day my father came back with a CD player for me that was water proof and some toys like old Hotweels. I was so happy even though the things I got were not new. Then that got me thinking how a child doesn't need to be given brand new toys to be happy. They can be happy with recycled things just as much. That goes to tell you that things in landfills and dumps are not necessary trash. But things people have chosen to abandon whether its a toy car or pieces of beauty scattered threw out a dirty field. Landfills are a true wonderland that just need the right person with a vision to discover it's priceless values.

Garbology Ch.8 Review

 In chapter 8, Humes focuses on "The Garbage Project" and it's founder Bill Rathje. Before reading this chapter, I have never heard of the Garbage Project. So to clarify, the Garbage Project is a group of people who focus and study trash. I's amazing what they can discover by simply just noticing what types of garbage they find in landfills and everywhere else. And if you were wondering what in the world does Garbology mean we finally get an answer for that in this chapter. "The study of a community or culture by analyzing it's waste."(168) And that exactly what Bill Rathje is. "The worlds first garbologist".(159) They say ones trash can say a lot about a person's life. Garbology has proven this to indeed be true. As the garbologists team studied garbage they found that it can be linked to year this piece of trash was most common. A perfect example is how two years after AIDS broke out infecting many, the amount of condoms increased thus more people where practicing safe sex.
  What was very shocking to me is the amount of food we waste. The garbage Project found that there is a lot of food we just throw away. Some haven't even been opened. This is very true as I myself have trough away unpackaged or still good food simply because it might have expired or doesn't look appealing any more. And keep in mind Costco and all the "deals" it offers. Do you really think anyone could finish all those big portions of food. Just the other day my mother was trying to buy some muffins but the cashier told her she had to get another batch as well because that's the way they sale them. We didn't even eat all those muffins. Schools are another reason so much food gets thrown away daily. Students often waste food and throw it away not thinking about how much waste they are producing. Then again this is the schools fault. In my old High School they would make use take everything or else we would have to pay. I remember arguing with the lunch lady about me not wanting to take milk. I ended up taking the milk as usual so I wouldn't have to pay and as soon as I stepped out of the lunch line I would through my milk in the trash. I wish I would have known about the Garbage Project while still in high school.

Garbology Ch.7 Review

   In this chapter of Garbology Humes writes about a study that was made in Seattle 2009 by MIT scientists and Bruce Sterling. The study asked volunteers to put a tracking devise on a piece of trash of there choice like a Coffee cup or a an old shoe; Which is why the name of the chapter is titled "The Trash Trackers". What I liked about this study was the idea of knowing exactly where our trash goes and ends up at. "Innate intelligence would, in sterling's vision, allow us to direct all objects-specifically the objects we throw away-to the best and most efficient path for refuse, repurposing or recycling"(146). It's cool to think that knowing where our garbage goes can open the window to truly informing society what we need to do and about the importance of recycling in order to clean up our world.
    The chapter also mentions that the scientist chose to conduct the experiment in Seattle because they are a "Green city, 50% of the people there recycle and the average U.S city recycles about 30%"(148). At the end of the study the volunteers were called back to see where there garbage ended up at. I was surprised to see that most of there trash ended up in other states than the one that they threw it away in. In some cases even further or just lost track as the devise attached to it must have been removed somehow. This would a good experiment for all of us to do in order to be aware of where exactly our trash goes and how it ends up in oceans, streets, and how it trashes our overall planet.

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        Beautiful silky smooth locks of hair sway in the fall breeze. Those perfectly sculpted curves can make any women jealous with an envious force. She is the reason women work so hard to gain that perfect beach body. The way her worn out baby blue sky metallic clothing hugs her perky breast and toned legs can make most men skip a heartbeat. Her beauty and style influence’s people to become artificial. The way her ocean blue eyes look into your soul may scare you at first, but soon you will see how they can charm you. As I walk pass by her I can smell her brand new car smell that you get when you open something new. That smell that can sneak a little smile on your face and bring back good memories. When she walks all you can hear is giggles and the click clack of her hot pink heals. She has the power to slap a smile on any girls face when they meet her for the first time. However, boys seem to shy away from her and care more about their fancy sports cars. For the perfect women’s destiny is to one day be left alone to rule a landfill and to destroy society and the environment. The queen of plastic beach is here.

Response to Garbology Ch. 6

   In chapter 6 of Garbology Humes goes into more detail on how our use of plastic is truly effecting not only our land but our oceans as well. It's no secret that our oceans are trash free, but did you know how the plastic is harming sea life that we later consume? the question that Humes has us ask our selves in this chapter is if we really know what we are eating when it comes to seafood. What I found interesting was how you can see all the plastic inside a jelly fish's body that consumed tiny pieces of plastic. It made me wonder about the fish that don't have transparent bodies as jelly fish do. "Plastic can take chemicals from the water, but then little fish eat that plastic, and a chain reaction called bio-magnification begins"(132). What also caught my attention was how 100 years ago there was no plastic in our oceans at all. But now it seems we use plastic for everything and we are throwing tons of it away daily so some of that plastic is bound to end up in the ocean. If you think about it plastic isn't very healthy to begin with. Its all made up of chemicals but yet we store our food in it and drink from it. We should really consider switching to glass.

Response to articles about trash in our oceans

After reading an article on Inhabitat.com about the how garbage effects our ocean I felt like never eating fish again. I had no idea that fish eat the plastic that gets thrown into the ocean and that this plastic contain chemicals we later consume after eating the toxic fish. This really got me thinking about why seafood is high in mercury. Because most likely the sea life have mercury inside them is because of the trash they eat. Surely fish do not contain mercury naturally.
However after reading the article about a 19 year old that developed a way to clean-up the oceans I felt a lot better. Its really amazing to see how this 19 year old put his time and hard work in developing a system that pulls plastic out of our oceans. In a way I felt inspired knowing that a 19 year old like me can make a difference in this world. Sure I'm not a genius that can develop ways to clean the oceans, but I can use my passion for acting and film to spread awareness about what plastic particles are doing to our fish and how it puts our health at risk.