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!