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.
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