Human Composting Is Wrong

Most people know how school lunches work you come get your lunch eat then you throw it away, but most people don't know what happens to the food after you eat and how it should be handled. There are multiple ways to get rid of the food but, one of the ways to get rid of the food schools don't like it, and that way is to compost the food. It i being discussed why you must not compost the cafeteria food and i will show you why it should be composted.

Heather Roger claims our current garbage disposal methods are short term and etiquette. Rogers’s position is clear that we need to minimize the use of landfills and create better means to discard trash. In supporting Rogers’s environment views I think that we need to create a more economic and environmental friendly garbage disposal system. Heather Rogers and Lars Eighner both acknowledge the issue with society’s throwaway mentality. Eighner proves that we throw away perfectly working stuff, having survived off others discarded materials. Eighner argues against excessive waste we create but does not have any prospected solutions. Whereas Rogers acknowledges the obvious need to minimize our consumption of waste but argues the need

Why does people think littering is okay? People should not litter because it makes our city look bad. There are plenty of trash can in Anderson, for people to put their trash in instead of throwing it on the ground. I hate to see people litter. When people come from other cities to visit their family and friends that would make us look bad, because there trash all over the streets. It attracts vermin and bacterial growth and people that pick up those broken bottles and syringes are bad for them.

Cremation and burial services are among the most common choices for American post-mortem body disposal (NFDA, 2017). Though the population of the United States is continuing to grow, observing increases in funeral rates, the number of active funeral homes has significantly decreased within the past ten years (NFDA, 2017). This could be due to the extreme shift in American practices, from a traditionally religious population to a more environmentally aware and loosely religious society (Fleming, Farquhar, Brayne, Barclay, 2016; Pew Research Center, 2015). Because of the general shifts in the prioritization of traditional practice, funeral homes should be better equipped -especially in cremation services- to suit the needs of the evolving disposal preferences of all demographics through observation of holistic

Dead?" AlterNet. In this article, Frankie Colmane looks into how dead bodies are treated in the United State even after Mitford's expose of the funeral industry was published. The article takes both a philosophical and scientific issue with the procedure of embalming sighting proven negative effects to human beings and the environment. Colmane shows that even though people are aware of the malfeasance and misappropriations of the funeral industry following pieces like Mitford's, very little has changed. Therefore problems that have been discussed in earlier works should not be forgotten. Rather they should be continually brought up until the issue is solved. During the 1800s, embalming became common practice because the dead family member would lie in state within the home for a period of days or weeks until it would be buried (Colmane 2010). The article shows the duplicity such as when "funeral directors were arguing forcefully against charges that their mediation between the living and the dead translated into social obstruction that barred the stricken from facing death with maturity, realism, and honest" (page 2). This article will be used to illustrate that things have not changed with funereal practices despite the publication of Mitford's essay.

Food waste is an environmental, economic, and ethical problem that can lead to less calorie intake and unnecessary damage of our assets. Individual behavior can redesign food waste at home and lead to bigger changes in the ecosystem. The problem is Americans throw out more food than glass, paper, and plastic. Also about 25% of food grown, processed, and transported in the US will never be consumed. When food is disposed in a landfill it rots and becomes a significant source of methane— a potent greenhouse gas with 21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.

Composting is important when we look at the future wellbeing of our planet and how it will affect the upcoming generations. According to epa.gov ,benefits of composting would be to reduce waste in landfills, and to transform that waste into a natural

According to some experts and their investigations such as McCabe (2016), there are some possible and effective alternatives or solutions to this current problem. In terms of reducing the environmental impact, a ‘circular economy’ should be applied, transforming food remains and garbage into biofuel, bioenergy, fertiliser or biogas, using an anaerobic digestion technology called ‘co-digestion’, as well as thermal recovery

According to (Goodman, n.d.), If a body is buried in a coffin deep underground, the decomposing process could take up to 50 years compared to bodies that are exposed to elements such as bacteria, water or air, then it will decompose a lot faster and very dramatically. No family member or stakeholder for that matter will donate their decomposed family member to her project for practice.

Throughout the course, I have paid close attention to the different methods of burial with hopes of finding an option suitable for my interests when I pass in the future. At Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, I took an interest in Amy Cunningham, an advocate for green burials. She had many wonderful experiences and expert opinions on the subject matter of types of burial practices but mostly accommodated natural full-body burials. The topic of green burials interested me greatly and upon further research, I found a sect of green burials where participants would use their cremains to help facilitate the growth of a tree. These tree burials seemed like a great solution the question I had proposed to myself while also aiding in the issue of overcrowded

The question what parallels may Hingston be trying to draw between the trend in cremation and the way we “think about our bodies and ourselves” is a pretty loaded one. The quote, “the rise of cremation dovetails neatly with the increase in those of us who have no religious affiliation” (38) answers this question nicely. Without religion, and a sense of my body matters traveling through people’s heads, people are going to realize that there isn’t a point to being buried only to be

An excuse that many people have involves composting, “ I would love to compost, but it will just get in the way.” When an individual or group uses a compost it is a barrel or bin. Individuals can start composting by simply getting a bin and putting it somewhere that no one can see, that way it’s not “in the way.” As a matter of fact, groups or organizations can also use composts. People simply put leaves, grass clippings, or certain food into the compost bin, and after a few days, or weeks it turns into fertilizer. Organizations can do this so they can save money on landscaping when they already have the materials for themselves. For example, churches can have a compost bin, and the food that is left over from, say their fellowship dinner they can put in there. They could put leaves that fall from their trees, or even grass clippings from mowing into the compost so they have fertilizer for their garden beds, or flowers. Composting can replenish the

There are billions of people struggling every day to have enough to eat, and billions of tons of food being tossed in the garbage, food waste is gaining increasing awareness as a serious environmental and economic issue. Research shows that about 60 million metric tons of food is wasted a year in the United States, with an estimated value of $162 billion. About 32 million tons of it end up in landfills, at a cost of about $1.5 billion a year to local government this economic crisis is worldwide! My research estimates that a third of all the food produced in the world is never consumed, and the total cost of that food waste could be as high as $400 billion a year. The food discarded by retailers and consumers in the most developed countries would be more than enough to feed all of the world’s hungry people, but it is not just those countries that have problems with food waste, it is also an issue in African countries like South Africa. The problem is expected to grow worse as the world’s population increases, unless actions are taken to reduce the waste. Food waste is not only a social cost, but it contributes to growing environmental problems like global warming, experts say, with the production of food consuming vast quantities of water, fertilizer and land. The fuel that is burned to process, refrigerate and transport it also adds to the environmental cost. Most food waste is thrown away in landfills, where it decomposes and emits methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Nothing is worse than cold, slimy compost! How does it get this way? Three factors are usually to blame: poor aeration, too much moisture, or not enough nitrogen-rich material in the pile.

When burying a dead body into the ground there are several processes of decomposition going on that leave out foul odor deep into the ground that can cause diseases spread and completely contaminate the whole area depending on the scope that the cemeteries cover. The effects of these