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.