Assignment 2: Garbology Project Delivery

Take a moment to imagine the realization that a young boy came to when two of his favorite movies had a large plotline that was somewhat based on the problems of trash. Wall-E, the famous Pixar movie, was based on a small robot that was left behind on Earth’s surface alone. His job was to clean the garbage that the human population left behind when they went into space to escape their problems. Toy Story 3, another Pixar movie, contained a scene with garbage that was vital to the plot, in which the characters are rescued from a trash furnace that was consuming literally tons of trash a minute. These two movies tried to make the American population aware of the ever growing trash situation, however, Americans quickly forgot about the Earth shattering situation that they are causing. The solution to the world’s trash problem is easy; people need to be educated on the problems of trash and given an easy way to fix it. People should be required to visit a landfill, educated on the severity of the trash problem, and should be rewarded for changing their habits to improve the problem.

On September 19th, Auburn High School's Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) partnered up with Nemaha Advocates Drug and Alcohol Awareness to host a trash pick-up! 24 members of FBLA were split into groups and sent to four different locations: the city Rec Complex, Legion Park, the Sunmart/Pizza Hut area, and Rotary Lake. Students then began to pick up any litter they found, and tallied it all up into different categories. These categories included tobacco, alcohol, medication, and other.

In his essay, "On Dumpster Diving", Lars Eighner speaks of his time spent as a homeless man. Eighner states in detail the steps needed in order to successfully become a scavenger of dumpsters based on his own experiences. Though the essay could appear to just be a useful manual there is an underlying message. Lars Eighner effectively uses argumentation, process analysis, and tone to demonstrate that society is wasteful.

Reading Garbology by: Edward Humes has surprised me in many ways possible. For example, I never knew Puente Hills ever existed until reading this book. Puente Hills is a garbage hill that exists in San Francisco, where the big boulders come pile trash over trash that has no limits. This type of facility has been existing for decades due to small business financial and environmental concerns. Also, Puente hill received almost 130 million tons of garbage and five hundred feet higher than the original ground level.

I will do my school project on my own. Project “Picker Upper” will be held at Yucca Valley High School during lunch. Picker Upper is a cleaning project created to help the ecosystem. Picker Upper will done on September Twenty-fifth through the Thirtieth. During this project, I will be attempting to collect all the garbage found outside of trash bins, and disposing of said trash properly throughout that week. This project will be done by my hands, alone.

The finial chapter of Garbology starts out like just as almost all of the previous chapters where Humes focuses on one individual except this chapter is different because the topic of this chapter is Bea Johnson who is not a like most of the others. Bea Johnson and how she had no for the amount idea how much stuff she actually had until her family moved from a large house into a small apartment. When she and her family moved they had much more respect for how much waste they actually had and they realized that in a smaller sitting they where able to keep there house much more cleanly, more organized. Humes talked about how the word NO has so much power, and is the key to getting to near zero waste lifestyle. This is something that is hard for

We have many inspections coming up, and being able to get pass them depends on whether we have proper safety measures in place. If we continue to have this mess and material blocking up corridors, we are in for a troublesome month. Although we have done a decent job in the past weeks with trash, I think we need to put a new cleanup method in action.

A teacher once told me, “One mans trash is another mans treasure, what he doesn’t appreciate the next man will.” Until recently analyzing this statement I always pondered about it as a metaphor using the thoughts, and ideas of people, but after reading Garbology I have come up with a literal process of reusing trash. On average Americans wastes 220 million tons of waste generated each year in the United States which ends up in one of the over 3,500 landfills. According to Edward Humes, the author of Garbology, “Garbage has become one the most accurate measures of prosperity in the twenty-first-century America and the world,” which proves that trash is a means to improving the success rate of Americans. This reminds me of the words of Confucius who stated, “When a goal cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goal, adjust the action step” because with the knowledge from garbology we can

Pollution is an issue that could potentially cause damage and recycling conveys an important role. An issue we currently phase is trash segregation, students aren’t recycling or separating trash as they should. As mentioned earlier, mindset is just as important as action - they have careless, ignorant mentalities. What my project proposes, are two main part the action and the mentality transformation. The action idea is to develop as community service recicle trashcans with that from the outside look the same as what its entering in them, an example could be a trash can full that physically look like a plastic bottle, so students only troth there there plastic

Although I cannot say that I have always known what I wanted to do with my life, I have always had a love and passion for hair, nails, makeup, and really anything to do with beauty. Between four sisters, friends, slumber parties, and formals, I have found my love for beauty and have obtained a large amount of practice. As a result of my experiences, my desire for cosmetology has brought me to Paul Mitchell the school. I have decided to attend Paul Mitchell because this school can help further my future education in cosmetology. I am confident that it is the perfect place for me, it will help me achieve my future goals and dreams, and I believe that I am a good student for this school.

A person’s trash can be analyzed to see whether or not they eat healthy, their sexual lifestyle, and more importantly to the environment how much people waste. I was challenged with the task of dealing with 102 tons of trash produced by my lifestyle, and I had to propose a method in which I could decrease my overall trash consumption. First and foremost, I would collect data on the amount of my household was producing to have data on my input and output of good to waste. Then I would start recycling my bottles, cans, glass bottles, etc… or take them to my nearest recycling center, to eliminate the level of recyclables that I was previously disposing. I would also watch how I shop and cook to stop the amount of “good waste” that I produce, after that I would began analyzing what I was actually throwing in the garbage and decide what could be reused. These are all small factors that wouldn’t affect my quality of life directly, but they would make my environment better to live in, making me healthier and more comfortable with a cleaner as well as safer space to live

Trash is a book written by Andy Mulligan, the book is about three kids that work at a dumpsite. ‘Education is not helpful when you work at a dumpsite’. I want to back up this topic because it is true that education is not helpful when you work at a dumpsite because at a very young age they send children to pick up rubbish so education wouldn’t be helpful when you are picking up rubbish why? Because you will not use education while picking up rubbish.

Our residents have trash bins that they load their trash into then they put it out in front of their house on a certain day of the week. Then we have trash men that

Household waste management is a growing problem in the United States and many other parts of the world. “The U.S. creates a lot of household solid waste per day per person. If there is a huge population of millions of people in a small area, household garbage can easily accumulate to 100,000 pounds per day. A few years ago, residents made a million tons of city waste per year and a billion tons of industrial solid wastes. In 2006, the U.S. residents generated half of 251 tons million tons of municipal solid waste per year and about 8 billion tons of industrial solid waste. This tremendous amount of waste includes both hazardous and nonhazardous waste. (Massawe, et.al, 2014)” A better understanding of household behavior is needed to assist

It is evident that even students of elite schools throw garbage on the ground even in the presence of garbage bins. This shows our attitude towards cleanliness and hygiene.