Have you ever thought, where do all this trash go? Why do people bother to take such a dirty mess? Well, the book “Garbology-Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash” explains it all. Edward Humes wrote this book. Garbology is an informative book that talks about waste in general. This book is interesting because it states facts, statistics, and it a non-fictional book. From reading this book, readers can learn that trash can be a disaster or lead to positive things. Information in this book is important for everyone to read. This book explains how you can be rich from waste, how to take care of waste, and its effect on the environment.…
Trash, garbage, junk, debris-all alternatively known as litter-scattered across the 268,597 square miles of Texas on our highways and landscapes. Where former First Lady Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson aspired to see bright and colorful wildflower blanketing the great Texas countryside, oftentimes we only see disturbing amounts of garbage. This is what I aim to change. Through my school's Key Club I have had the opportunity to have a positive impacts in reducing the "over 435 million pieces of visible litter" covering "our empire wide and glorious." In the thirty-eight total service hours I have dedicated to both Texas Adopt-A-Highway and school wide recycling the amount of litter that myself and the generous volunteers…
Jara’na at one years old, is standing near the kitchen table in the dining room; as his parents have just bought home the groceries. Jara’na is standing behind the bag of groceries as he is preparing himself to start helping with unpacking the groceries. Jara’na begins to bend his knees down to create a shorter distance between himself and the bag of groceries. This makes it easier for himself and greater chance of reaching the item from the bag. As he processes to bend his knees down he extends his arms out, leaving them straight down as they enter the grocery bag. This is done while he keeps strong eye contact with his father and not the item. Jara’na grips the item, still with his arms straight and not having a single eye contact with the…
There are other assumptions were made by his lawyer, and family. For example, Crowe negotiated a plea deal with the D.A. because she assumed that there are no chances of winning the case. On the other hand, Naz’s family assumed that the drugs may be affected on Naz and led him to kill Andrea. However, both those assumptions turned out to be incorrect by the end of the show. Stone assumed that there must be other evidence that proves Naz’s innocence, which turned to be right.…
o Research how much goes into our landfills each year that can be recycled or composted. What kinds of environmental advantages could be gained if every American could be convinced to do his part and stopped throwing away reusable items?…
The film Wasteland follows famous artist Vik Muniz as he visits Jardim Gramacho, a garbage dumpsite in his native country Brazil. There he starts a fundraising project of photographing some of the chosen “pickers” and creating enlargements of the photos made of recyclable materials, he then sells the creations and gives the proceeds to the group. Watching as the project materializes was very inspiring. Most of workers or “catadores” lived a hard life but in their own personal tragedies they never let it stop them from working hard to get where they want to be in life. For even though they admitted picking out recyclable materials, was disgusting they were still so proud of their work and I believe they had a very good reason to be. Their job no matter how unsanitary is very dignified. One of the oldest pickers even said that it was okay to get his hands dirty since when he receives his salary, he knows he got it from dignity. This is a very inspirational statement given the present state of the world wherein human trafficking, prostitution, kidnapping, drug dealing and the like are being used to earn profit. Aside from the high personal integrity brought about by their job they are also immensely helping the environment. I strongly believe there are riches in garbage. I not only give kudos to the pickers but also to Vik Muniz for in his success as an artist he did not fail to look back from where he came from. He did a lot to help the people in Jardim Gramacho rise up from their financial situations. One of the things he said in the film which really got to me was “ I’d rather be the one to have nothing and want everything than to have everything and want nothing.” This depicts how the real sense of fulfillment of a person has nothing to do with gaining worldly…
How can we waste so much and watch our world get torn away by the variable we created? This piece helped me realize the amount of waste that each household produces. I believe if others realized the message this piece conveyed, many people would make an effort to change their amount of…
From the perspective of space you can barely tell the effect humans have made on the earth. As you get closer, however, you can see the trash and impact we have truly caused. “Trashed” was influential to me because it opened my eyes to a different perspective. It showed me real world people in real world situations. I’ve ignored the facts and was ignorant to not think of the fact the world is deteriorating around me. I never really thought of where all our trash goes not only as a community but as a entire world. I have thought of how we affect the world around us but not in this aspect. I did not understand it was this bad and to this level. It honestly scares me. This is an award-winning documentary movie. It was directed…
The three bins; A green one for compost, a blue one for recyclabe papers and plastics, and a black one for landfill, are a great idea because it will help us cut down on landfill and…
Imagine you and your family going to the beach. You and your kids are so excited to go and swim and get their feet in the cool blue water. But what if when you get there you and your kids are so sad.There's garbage everywhere! Then you see a bird land and falls to the ground from a six pack of plastic around its neck.. Then your whole family's heartbreaks. Nobody likes to be sad or heartbroken that's why everybody should recycle so stuff like that doesn't happen.…
Waste Land is a documentary about finding beauty in things that people discard. Directed by Lucy Walker, the film follows Brazilian artist Vik Muniz who travels back to his home country from New York City to create artistic photographs shaped by using garbage that depicts the lives of the pickers who live in the largest landfill in the world. Located in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Jardim Gramacho is a landfill that holds 3,000 garbage pickers, also knowns as catadores, who pick out recyclable wastes from the dump. These workers are encountered by Muniz who takes them on his project and create the artistic ideas in his mind. However, what responsibilities does art and the artist have to the community that makes that art possible?…
The ways we can get students to take part in recycling at school and in their local community is to ;…
In 2008, the waste generated more quickly than could be disposed of, was said to be 40% greater than the earth’s available yearly resources (Brown 2009). The earth’s resources and its capacity for absorbing the waste we generate has become environmentally unsustainable. Disposing and recycling of rubbish is now huge international business and although there is great economic value in this for the companies involved the need to find ways to sustain the environment is also a major factor in this process (Brown 2009). Transporting rubbish around the world where it is recycled more cheaply and remanufactured into a usable commodity to be shipped back, highlights the new value of some of our rubbish. Waste plastics, paper, card and glass are now just some of the products collected, recycled and sold for profit. Previously they may have been simply landfilled at not only monetary cost, so of ‘negative value’, but as we are now discovering, great cost to our planet (Brown…
The act of throwing food away is often forgotten, but with this new profound idea other Americans can feel charitable each time they throw away their trash. Their leftover food will go straight to the landfill and become a nice snack or a whole meal for one of the landfill residents. Society will no longer have to worry about starvation because essentially anyone can provide for the poor. People will eventually feel better about the act of throwing away hundreds of thousands of dollars of wasted food knowing that it will go to a family in need. However, people will be questioning why it has to stop with food. Used tissues, old dental floss, and that rusted razor that everyone has lying about will ensure that the landfill residents have acceptable hygiene. The rainwater combined with the last few congealed drops of some liquid soap will keep the landfill inhabitants fresh and clean. There will be competition in the landfills for the best food and supplies or the best cardboard, but that should be promoted because they need to understand that although everything will be essentially thrown out to them, it will still be “survival of the fittest”.…
Thesis: Everyone must make a stronger effort to recycle because it is beneficial in so many ways!…