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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

Undoubtedly, as we are stepping towards advancement with technology every day, we are getting exposed to more pollution levels in our life. Water, air and earth, in all these forms of society we are experiencing rapidly growing pollutions. In water, we are experiencing a huge number of unwanted disposals of all sorts from the cruise ships or any private boat. A lot of people now a days doesn't have any idea where to dispose proper wastes. For example, if we go to a grocery store like Walmart or Target, we see big trashcans with it's purpose written on it. There are certain trashcans that are only meant for plastic disposing while some of them are for recyclable objects. People need to educate themselves with this basic things. Not only these, if we look at the bigger picture, in third world countries, earth or soil pollution is one of the major environmental problems. People throwing garbages everywhere on the side of streets, urinating on the side of the street, spitting everywhere are the major habits people are having over the years.

“Waste” is a short essay in which Wendell Berry critically analyzes the growing epidemic of trash that is polluting the nation’s land, waterways, and the air. Berry explains to the readers how the remnants of floods and litter that leave farmlands scattered with trash, makes more work for the farmers who have to rid their land of the trash before they can use it. Along with the floods, roads and highways also lead to a barrage of garbage from people who are too lazy or ignorant to take proper care of their garbage, which Berry claims leads to “. . . a constant precipitation of cans, bottles, the plastic-ware containers of fast food joints, soiled plastic diapers, and sometimes whole bags of garbage,” (Waste 1) along the edges of their fields. The garbage of the country continues to be a burden for everyone, whether it impacts them directly or not. Although it would be impossible to eliminate garbage completely from the country, the waste could be greatly reduced. Most of today’s trash is a consequence of the laziness of American society.

In today’s society, there is an abundance of waste. This is clear in observing how people live, we often throw out items because we want something better. Lars Eighner, author of "On Dumpster Diving," writes about his experiences being homeless and how he survived on the waste of others. This provides insight on how the phrase "one man's trash is another man's treasure," is true. Jeremy Seifert, who directed the documentary Dive!, also talks about how he survives off of other people's waste, but this was a decision he made. As they tell of their experiences, Seifert and Eighner both come to the conclusion that society is wasteful. While both individuals provided good information, I believe Seifert presented the better argument. Both of

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

In order to get actively involved in preventing the Pacific Trash Vortex from getting even bigger people need to focus on using as little plastic products as possible and refrain from buying plastic products when they are not in need of such objects. "The best thing you can do to stop the growth of these monsters is use cloth bags, reuse and recycle plastic bags when you do end up with them, limit your purchase of new plastic products and use alternatives when available, and of course recycle any other plastic that ends up in your possession." (Hren & Hren 45) The world is thus in a critical condition as many fail to understand the degree to which their actions have a negative effect on the environment.

Wherever one goes, “it” is everywhere. “It” is on the sidewalk, on the road, in the sea, and sometimes, “it” is in the wind. This “it” is trash that people have thrown into the environment. In the article entitled “Eight Million Tons of Plastic Dumped in Ocean Every Year” by Laura Parker of National Geographic, she talks about the increase of litter thrown into the ocean every year. There is also oceanologist Captain Charles Moore, with his video “Sea of Plastic” which talks about the plastic litter that is thrown into the ocean and how this plastic litter causes marine life to suffer. Also, the article by Nathan Green is known as “The Environment vs Cigarettes” talks about how cigarette butts are the biggest littered object in the world

The average American creates about one hundred-thirty pounds of trash a month, and an article in the journal Nature estimates that global solid-waste generation will triple, to eleven million tons a day, by the year 2100 (Semuels). Plastic does not break down; it’s not biodegradable nor does it

Puente Hills, a landfill in Las Angeles, is notoriously known. The dump is filled with things that could have been recycled and composted rather than just thrown into the trash heap. The book also mentioned the 55-year-old man’s body buried among the garbage, which is absurd that the pile was so large that no one could find him. All of the landfills produce atmospheric gasses including methane leading to climate change. With landfills pilling up and becoming television shows, tourist attractions, families, communities, and other countries are stepping up in order to dig our way out from underneath the waste and create a healthier environment once again. How they all manage their resources now, and into the future, will be influenced by these

They state in the article that "Americans produce more than four pounds of trash and recycles only about a third of that amount."(Paragraph 3, Scentance 2.) By that logic, we keep taking and throwing away so senslessly that in a matter of time I fear that our world will be overun with garbage.

The general argument made by Zeina Karam in her work, “Lebanon’s Trash Crisis Worsens Amid Rising Heat”, is that the permanent closing of Beirut’s main landfill has created many different issues with both the environment and those who live in the city. More specifically, Karam argues that steps need to be taken to remove the garbage, which the government has not been doing. She writes, “‘Shame on them (politicains) and shame on us if we accept to live like this,’ businessman Antoine Samaha said”, suggesting that she agrees with the comments that those who live in Lebanon have made about the trash piling up with no actions being taken to remove it. In conclusion, Karam’s belief is that the government needs to solve the issue quickly, and stop

A significant amount of my childhood was spent on the beaches in my mom’s hometown of Ketchikan, Alaska. A small tourist town, few people can identify it on a map and even fewer recognize the damage being inflicted on its environment. As I have become older, the issue of trash on these beaches has become more apparent and I have become more involved with this issue. For me, being a global citizen means protecting the planet and the people who reside in it, and this can be tackled by altering the way we treat waste.

In 2010, Americans produced about 250 million tons of garbage and only 34 percent was recycled. Littering may be small, but when it accumulates it can become a serious issue, which nowadays unfortunately already exists. There’s numerous amounts of negative impacts caused by this matter that not everyone is aware of. These ramifications not only impact the people itself, but animals and environments as well. In addition, this incident has enough power to contribute to other pollution types that exist as well. For example: an article by the Chicago Tribune from 2011, called “Chicago River cleanup required”, states that because of all the waste in the waterways, approximately $72 million will be needed to disinfect these waterways. As any bad

This essay is analysing articles in concept of littering. Many people believe that it is okay to just throw unwanted trash out the window and into the environment. Most people think throwing something on the ground may not affect much but when that trash finds other trash, a pile begin to build up and you are left with a giant pile of rubbish. Trash that is not thrown away properly can make its way to anywhere. Including the ocean, your front yard and so many more places. Most people believe that once they throw out the trash from the car window or anywhere they are that it just disappears or that someone else is going to come along and clean it up. However, that is not the case. And to make matters worse, littering has become very common in the community we live in. Leading to people having to spend money along with tax dollars on clean ups, or big piles of trash on people’s lawns.

American citizens throw away millions of tons of garbage each year, and this trash has to go somewhere. While there are projects underway to clean and reuse this refuse most of it gets dumped into huge landfills. These landfills are disgusting festering blisters on our country's landscape. But people continue to consume and throw away more and more in the name of convenience. As they see it, when things get old, throw it away and get a new one. They blame the government for the trash problem, but the truth blame should be placed on themselves.