The Joy of Garbage Response:

I always thought the little things count and will help because the little things we do will grow into something big. However, it seemed like Perkins didn't think so. She didn't think taking your reusable bag doesn't touch the larger economic and political structure. I think Anything we do helps! I wasn't sure whether to believe her or not because she had no credible evidence when she mentions how much each person throws away a year. She said 1600 pounds a year and Humes said 102 tons a year. I like how she did her own experiment and had her students go out and ask another generation but I feel like she needed to give more examples because she only gave us the older generation. She used a lot of pathos and logos in the video she uploaded. The video gave me an easy and better understanding of the whole picture. When she mentions the breast milk that made me gasp because the toxins are in the mother which then carries on to the newborns and that is just disgusting. I thought it was funny when she had the Government polish the cooperations shoes. It showed that they owned us because they're bigger than us. It's true we always by the new big thing to switch out our old stuff. That is due to the media they brain wash us; it accumulates to what we already have. I think the idea of spending is going down because now all everyone thinks about now is save save save! Jobs are tough to find and money is on a tight budget right now and people are either not spending much or going for the cheap stuff. So with our economic crisis I think we will start throwing less trash away than we use to.

Chapter 3:

I work at Ralphs grocery store, and what we use to bag our customers groceries are preferably plastic bags. I always wondered when I bagged which bag is better paper or plastic. I realized both were bad. By using paper we're cutting down trees and when plastic it lasts forever flying above our landfills. Can you believe that we can make our mountain trash into something beautiful? I mean I cannot see that gross trash and tons of it transform into a playground especially with the smell. I was amazed to what they find in the landfill...Dead Bodies seriously?!? Thats crazy? Smart... since the body is buried under piles of trash and is impossible to find things but that is just crazy! I thought it was interesting when Big Mike said something like what we see advertised ends up in the dump sooner than people thought Because its true. When you see something cool on t.v and you end up getting it because it was "in" at the time ends up in the trash sooner then many people would like just because its either out of style or there was no use for it anymore. I was kind of annoyed with the idea of "buy anything" just to help with the problem but look where we are at now!, even worst than before. I think we should go back to Lippincott's idea of trash. We should view the trash as if every piece of material is running low and save every bit of material we can get to reduce what goes to the landfill. It disgusts me how people thought it was okay to feed the pigs trash and then have that garbage eating pig for dinner. I think i just threw up a little bit. ew. Back to the plastic situation, we should have gotten rid of it once we knew it was hurting the planet. We can help... Bring your reusable bags when you go to the store every bit helps!

The Interview with Edward Humes Article response:

After reading the interview I got a better understanding  of the reading because he explains it more clearly in a way that I can understand. For example, when he speaks about the methane and how they put the gas to use for energy and how it can generate about 70,000 homes. He said it's not a good thing but it a better solution that making it go to waste. What I don't get is how we are sending out our material to Zhan Yin who is miles away wasting gas for shipment when we can try and figure out how we can do the same here in the U.S. where we don't have to travel the materials so far. Also, so that we are buying the reused material from ourselves and not from someone out of the country. What amazed me was when he mentions the trash out in the sea and how putting all the trash together come out to be forty percent of earths land. It's like making a whole other country made out of trash. I go to the beach almost every weekend and I've seen nurdles swim onto shore but have never really known what they were and now I know. It almost makes me not want to eat fish... but i love it so much! Every chance I get when I'm at the beach I try and pick up every piece of trash I see. I work at a grocery store and I am obligated to ask, "paper or plastic?" and surprisingly many of our costumers bring there own reusable bags. However, sad to say not everyone is concerned about the planet and ask for plastic only because the plastic lasts longer and many people reuse them for trash bags at home, doggy bags, or just saves them. Paper bags tend to rip faster. I like how the Patagonia company have their costumers send back their products to reuse them to make something else out of them. It's kind of like what I do with my clothes. I turn jeans to shorts, sweaters to bags, or even shirts into scarves. I mean it is better than throwing them out. The less you throw away helps so much because it reduces the size of the mountain trash.

Chapter 2:
Back then people threw trash out their window like its no big deal! Until they found out that it was causing diseases. I'm glad that today there is a fine to littering. It decreases the amount of trash on the streets and people definitely do not want to spend a penny just because they threw something on the floor when it can be avoided and be thrown where it's suppose to go. What I thought was interesting was Waring's attack on the garbage. His idea about recycling has made such a huge impact for us up until now. Reusing material to reduce the trash and it also provided people with jobs. It's a win win. I was surprised when they put a zoo, a park, tennis court, a lake, etc. over the ashes. It's crazy how they disguise the dirty from us making the dirty look pretty.

Chapter 1:
This is the first I've heard of the Puente Hills landfill in L.A. I'm not from California I moved here from Alaska and I looked it up on google image and the image below is the Landfill. I never realized how much trash one person can throw away. Some of us think that it's okay to throw a piece of gum wrapper away, thinking it wont do us any harm, however it is. It's adding to what is building into a mountain full of trash and polluting our air, we just don't realize it. What I thought was interesting was how people think that putting clean dirt makes the garbage sanitary. Wouldn't you think that all that does is add to the mess?All it does is bury the trash thinking it'll cover up the stench. Hello!? It's still there the garbage isn't going anywhere! It also amazed me how archeologists saw the trash as a master piece than a crises. I mean no matter what or who you are you're human and the trash is dangerous to us. While I read, I kept passing by the question "where do we put the trash now?". Reading it over and over in the book wasn't the annoying part, I was annoyed that until now we still haven't found a solution to where to put the trash. Throwing it over the canyons wont do any good for us thats just hurting the place we live in. It has gotten me more aware of trash and as I read I  think what should I do with my trash so that it doesn't pile with the rest? burn it? no...that pollutes the air and there is no where to put the ashes. Put it in water to dissolve?  but not everything can. These are just thoughts that can maybe one day help our Trash problem.