Chapter 10:
In Chapter ten he revisits the topic of plastic. Plastic is not going anywhere anytime soon because they are not biodegradable. I work at a grocery store and we use way too many plastic bags and some paper bags. However, now we have reusable bags some one dollar others a little more, but they last for quite a long time. By 2014, the use of plastic bags will cost ten cents each and that sucks for those who load their kitchen and are trying to save money. I think that it is a great step of getting rid of plastic and paper bags. The creator of reusable bags is Andy Keller who was at first a software trader and now working with landscaping. The name of his bag brand is Chicobag. It is a great product to stuff in your bag for later use. These bags are not made in the U.S., but China and Vietnam and are made out of recyclable material. This helps reduce the amount of fossil fuel we use for plastic bags. This is a great little but big Breakthrough for our trash epidemic. Just a creation of a bag has made a big difference... i wonder what will come next? Hopefully our younger generation will find a way to get rid of all of our trash or help get the word out.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Chapter 9:
I really found this chapter very interesting because i would have never thought of people using trash as an art piece. It is amazing how something reused can mean so much. This is a great way to show people how much trash they throw away when looking at the art and how some trash cannot disappear. San Francisco is a city where they separate the garbage into a variety of piles. For the people to actually stick to recycling they have layer out a fine if the garbage is not separated and the fine is one thousand dollars. No one wants to pay that much for garbage and it is easy to do. Artists would dig out the material they need to create their master piece. I use to think that would be disgusting going and picking into the dirty trash. However, The Final piece of the art is outstanding. It is just so creative and amazing what people can do while using reusable material instead of new ones. Hume also mention something about recycling theft, which is when strangers retrieve items from others recycling bins and exchange it for money. This can affect the garbage and recycling companies negatively. Not going to lie, i bring my water bottles to those random recyclers around the corner in exchange for money. I know i should just have the city pick up the recycling but we use that money to buy more water. Which is also what i need to change and exchange 100 water bottle for 1 bottle that i can refill. Although trash is being used as art, doesn't art pieces get thrown out anyway after its been used or got tired of having it and need a newer piece?
I really found this chapter very interesting because i would have never thought of people using trash as an art piece. It is amazing how something reused can mean so much. This is a great way to show people how much trash they throw away when looking at the art and how some trash cannot disappear. San Francisco is a city where they separate the garbage into a variety of piles. For the people to actually stick to recycling they have layer out a fine if the garbage is not separated and the fine is one thousand dollars. No one wants to pay that much for garbage and it is easy to do. Artists would dig out the material they need to create their master piece. I use to think that would be disgusting going and picking into the dirty trash. However, The Final piece of the art is outstanding. It is just so creative and amazing what people can do while using reusable material instead of new ones. Hume also mention something about recycling theft, which is when strangers retrieve items from others recycling bins and exchange it for money. This can affect the garbage and recycling companies negatively. Not going to lie, i bring my water bottles to those random recyclers around the corner in exchange for money. I know i should just have the city pick up the recycling but we use that money to buy more water. Which is also what i need to change and exchange 100 water bottle for 1 bottle that i can refill. Although trash is being used as art, doesn't art pieces get thrown out anyway after its been used or got tired of having it and need a newer piece?
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Chapter 7:
Have you ever wondered how trash ends up where it does and how many days, our minutes, or seconds it does to reach its destination. Seattle is the greenest city I have ever heard of. They are the recycle Gods! Seattle has created a way to find out where trash travels by inserting a tracker on a piece of trash. Humes talks about a resident in Seattle, Tim Pritchard has become apart of the trash tracker research. Why can't the people of California get on Seattle's level where they are recycling about 30 percent of their waste. I believe it is possible for us to get to where Seattle is if we put our minds to it. It amazes me how residents are being charged on the amount of trash they accumulate. We know where most of our trash goes, which is in either the ocean or landfills, but the other stuff ends up everywhere! Humes also mentions smart trash. Humes also mentions that the SENSEable City Lab is great for the future. They are trying to shorten down the distance of where garbage travels, a specific trash the e-waste. The Lab is in Massachusetts institute of technology and was inspired by novelist and futurist Bruce Sterling. I feel like we keep getting closer and closer to finding a solution to our trash epidemic.
Chapter 6:
I seriously love how passionate and dedicated scientist Miriam Goldstein is about the research of plastic pollution in the ocean. She amazed me by how she gathered information for the project Kaisei which was mentioned in the previous chapter. Nobody knows where and when plastic has end up where it is now. Humes continues to show how concerned he is with plastic. I was happy to read that funds were going towards the research of garbage patches in the sea to get to the bottom of the situation and how we can help it stop it. How crazy is it to believe that there is a garbage patch that is Twice the size of Texas!! My eyes got huge when I read about that. Plastic has spread out to 1,200 miles! That is scary! I love animals... and it is so sad to see how plastic bags are floating around the ocean and are being eaten by turtles because they mistaken them for jellyfishes. Like I mentioned in the previous chapter, plastic has entered in our food chains. I like how Humes mentions that plastic investigators are more hardworking and kicka** because they have to do twice the work than an archaeologists and a paleontologists because they have no way of telling the age of plastic. I like how Goldstein says "We made it. We own it." because it is true! It is our mess and it is now our responsibility to clean it up instead of ignoring it hoping a miracle will happen.
I seriously love how passionate and dedicated scientist Miriam Goldstein is about the research of plastic pollution in the ocean. She amazed me by how she gathered information for the project Kaisei which was mentioned in the previous chapter. Nobody knows where and when plastic has end up where it is now. Humes continues to show how concerned he is with plastic. I was happy to read that funds were going towards the research of garbage patches in the sea to get to the bottom of the situation and how we can help it stop it. How crazy is it to believe that there is a garbage patch that is Twice the size of Texas!! My eyes got huge when I read about that. Plastic has spread out to 1,200 miles! That is scary! I love animals... and it is so sad to see how plastic bags are floating around the ocean and are being eaten by turtles because they mistaken them for jellyfishes. Like I mentioned in the previous chapter, plastic has entered in our food chains. I like how Humes mentions that plastic investigators are more hardworking and kicka** because they have to do twice the work than an archaeologists and a paleontologists because they have no way of telling the age of plastic. I like how Goldstein says "We made it. We own it." because it is true! It is our mess and it is now our responsibility to clean it up instead of ignoring it hoping a miracle will happen.
Chapter 5:
I go to the beach almost every weekend over the summer and you wouldn't believe how much trash I found as I walked around. In this chapter, Humes discusses how plastic is harming our oceans. From the start of the book, he introduces captain, Mary Crowley who sailed on a ship named Kaisei, which mean "ocean planet" in japanese. Because I thought the sea was the cleanest place on earth that is trash free, but I was wrong. The sea is actually worst than the land. As Crowley continued her sail along the coast of California and Hawaii she identifies this nasty gooey material that is believed to be plastic that has been broken down to little particles. How nasty is that!? Humans and animals and other creatures have been swimming in this gunk and not even notice it. The plastic in the ocean is being absorbed into the lanterns fish bodies. That is dangerous because fish is in our food chain. Lantern fish are being eaten by bigger fish, which is being into by other bigger fishes then sold at the stores for us to cook and then we consume it. Now we have harmful toxins in our body. I know that trash is everywhere but I could not believe that there are islands of trash in the seas called gyres. Not to mention that there more than 1, but 5. They are located in the South and North Atlantic and the North and South Pacific. Humes says that putting all the trash together in the sea makes up about 40 percent of the ocean. We might at we create another country with the trash. All we need to do is put dirt over it and call it home. I know it wont be easy but at least we would be using the trash as something rather than nothing. I feel like it is impossible for people to stop them from throwing trash into the ocean because they don't know anything about it. This has made me open my eyes to our serious trash problem and has made me want to go out and inform the rest of the world what is happening.
I go to the beach almost every weekend over the summer and you wouldn't believe how much trash I found as I walked around. In this chapter, Humes discusses how plastic is harming our oceans. From the start of the book, he introduces captain, Mary Crowley who sailed on a ship named Kaisei, which mean "ocean planet" in japanese. Because I thought the sea was the cleanest place on earth that is trash free, but I was wrong. The sea is actually worst than the land. As Crowley continued her sail along the coast of California and Hawaii she identifies this nasty gooey material that is believed to be plastic that has been broken down to little particles. How nasty is that!? Humans and animals and other creatures have been swimming in this gunk and not even notice it. The plastic in the ocean is being absorbed into the lanterns fish bodies. That is dangerous because fish is in our food chain. Lantern fish are being eaten by bigger fish, which is being into by other bigger fishes then sold at the stores for us to cook and then we consume it. Now we have harmful toxins in our body. I know that trash is everywhere but I could not believe that there are islands of trash in the seas called gyres. Not to mention that there more than 1, but 5. They are located in the South and North Atlantic and the North and South Pacific. Humes says that putting all the trash together in the sea makes up about 40 percent of the ocean. We might at we create another country with the trash. All we need to do is put dirt over it and call it home. I know it wont be easy but at least we would be using the trash as something rather than nothing. I feel like it is impossible for people to stop them from throwing trash into the ocean because they don't know anything about it. This has made me open my eyes to our serious trash problem and has made me want to go out and inform the rest of the world what is happening.
Chapter 4:
Humes continues to discuss about the landfill. In this chapter he talks more about the history of the landfill. I found it interesting how David Steiner, the CEO of material management Inc bought all his competition out. He is convinced that our trash will pile up and take up more room than it already has. However he also believes that there is a solution for companies to buy the trash. I was astonished about when WMI expanded was thought out to be a good thing. Nevertheless, WMI was being blamed for illegal waste dumping. I was stunned by how they did not care for the things they were harming at the areas they were dumping at. A human with no feelings... a robot being controlled. I see they want the trash to disappear, but there must be a better way.
Humes continues to discuss about the landfill. In this chapter he talks more about the history of the landfill. I found it interesting how David Steiner, the CEO of material management Inc bought all his competition out. He is convinced that our trash will pile up and take up more room than it already has. However he also believes that there is a solution for companies to buy the trash. I was astonished about when WMI expanded was thought out to be a good thing. Nevertheless, WMI was being blamed for illegal waste dumping. I was stunned by how they did not care for the things they were harming at the areas they were dumping at. A human with no feelings... a robot being controlled. I see they want the trash to disappear, but there must be a better way.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Response:
Scripps Study Shows Plastic in Pacific Garbage Patch has Increased 100-Fold
Wow is what I can say in the first sentence. 100 times the amount that was found 40 years ago! It just amazes me how the garbage patch in the ocean is as big as Texas and growing. It disgusts me that insect eggs are in our food chain which is being consumed into our body. Knowing that the garbage keeps accumulating in the ocean I feel like its hopeless for us to clean it up because there is too much! It seems impossible to have the ocean free of plastic debris. Lets just make that pile of garbage into another island. Or more ocean clean up. But how can we inform the businesses to recycle. That is are job to figure our how to tell them. Seeing that picture of that handful of plastic in a hand was probably picked up as they were walking down the beach for maybe 10 minutes or less. Imagine if they were to walk down the beach for an hour? probably have trash bags full of plastic.
Scripps Study Shows Plastic in Pacific Garbage Patch has Increased 100-Fold
Wow is what I can say in the first sentence. 100 times the amount that was found 40 years ago! It just amazes me how the garbage patch in the ocean is as big as Texas and growing. It disgusts me that insect eggs are in our food chain which is being consumed into our body. Knowing that the garbage keeps accumulating in the ocean I feel like its hopeless for us to clean it up because there is too much! It seems impossible to have the ocean free of plastic debris. Lets just make that pile of garbage into another island. Or more ocean clean up. But how can we inform the businesses to recycle. That is are job to figure our how to tell them. Seeing that picture of that handful of plastic in a hand was probably picked up as they were walking down the beach for maybe 10 minutes or less. Imagine if they were to walk down the beach for an hour? probably have trash bags full of plastic.
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