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.