The Trash Sample

Heather Roger's essay Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage offers a compelling outlook on society’s excessive and

Eighner wants to confront his audience about how wasteful we actually are. The three main ideas; what is safe to eat, scavengers vs. scroungers, and the stories told by items, all tie into Eighner’s overall theme of trying to open everyone’s eyes to how wasteful we are. Many people do not realize what they are actually throwing away because most of us have more than we need. We don’t have room in our fridge so we just throw good items away that are perfectly good. We also throw away more than just good food. Many people in America throw away practically brand new clothes instead of taking the time to go donate them at a shelter. Even I as a college student do this. You need more room so it just easier to toss it into the trash. Although it may help someone who

Summary and Response Essay “On Dumpster Diving” In the essay “On Dumpster Diving” Lars Eighner describes the wastefulness of Americans, how they view the poor, and how to stay safe while living the life of a scavenger. As he travels the streets with his companion Lizbeth he scavenges through dumpsters in search of the necessities of life. There are many people that are homeless in need of food.

The dishes in the kitchen sink where stacked nearly a foot tall. The kitchen counters had miscellaneous tools, junk and trash stacked all over it to where there was not any visible counter space. There were piles of laundry approximately two feet tall and three feet in diameter, clean and dirty, in the kitchen and the laundry room but I was unable to differentiate between the two. The kitchen and dining floor, which was white tile, was mostly black with what appeared to be and smelled like animal feces but the Dunn’s stated this was mud from the driveway. I advised the Dunn’s that they should clean the residence and that I would follow up in a couple of days. The Dunn’s assured me the residence would be cleaned in a day. I

Eighner makes use of a tone and presents an usually unseemly topic in a compelling and comical light. His general claim is that it is possible to survive well outside the “housed” community of the average citizens. Eighner brings a perspective on scavenging for food and goods that differs from the typical knee-jerk reaction to dumpster diving. In his essay, Eighner discusses American waste as well as the true art of scavenging and the lessons he learned through this experience.

While walking through the residence I noticed a large amount of trash throughout the residence along with animal feces on the floor and in the bath tub. See attached images.

In an article from the New York Times titled, “From Farm to Fridge to Garbage Can” by Tara Parker-Pope, it is evident that Americans dominate in throwing away perfectly good food and answers the question: why should we care about food waste? Food waste is expensive, and many different research studies have proven that including the Garbage Project put on by the University of Arizona which tracked home food waste for three decades. It is estimated that nearly 25 percent of the food Americans bring into their homes is wasted. As economists, we figure that a family of four may spend approximately 175 dollars on groceries in a week, so they could undermine more than 40 dollars worth of food each week and 2,275 dollars a year. Putting 2,275 more dollars into every American family’s pockets could give them more of an opportunity to buy their fancy smart televisions or luxuries that everyone wants. In fact, the United States throws 48.3 billion dollars away every year along with about half of the water used to produce that same food states the UNEP website.

Trash. What is considered trash? Trash, is a subjective term. For some, it’s the whole, “waste not, want not”, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”, etc. We’ve all heard these age old adages, but how much do we, as concerned Americans truly take this to heart when it comes to food waste? Some may argue that an expiration date is some magical sign to throw food away, which, does have some truth to it. No one wants to eat food that’s expired, and therefore, will make one sick. However, as a nation, America contributes to food waste by holding a staggering forty percent of the world’s food waste total (Flick). If America contributes to almost half of the world’s food waste, then it stands to reason that America is the most

Every day I stand near the garbage compactor and watch pounds and pounds of produce go down the garbage hole never eaten for many reasons. Some produce is simply too ugly for customers to want to consume, for example like a deformed bell pepper, a bent cucumber, a freckled banana. Some produce is gently bruised like an apple that was pressed a little too hard or a tomato that was bruised from customers “testing” it for juiciness. So much produce that has little to nothing wrong with it is simply thrown away every day at local grocery stores like Albertsons. Meanwhile, there is anywhere up to 200 hungry homeless in Denton County (Point in time Survey.) Places like Our Daily bread offer meals to the homeless during the week and they are often

Never in my life have I wanted to puke so hard right now, I ran quickly from that place to the next home, stopping a few steps shy to toss my cookies. There goes most of my breakfast. Not sure if I could keep the rest down, let alone eat anything after seeing that. Why do I do this to myself? The next house, was burnt down. The door was wide open, but at least there was no nasty smell, well aside from getting bits from the home next to it. I helped myself inside to see what I could find. The place was picked clean, meaning the walls were torn down and the copper piping was removed. Kyle, who did construction at one point used to tell me stories about how scrappers used to sneak into construction yards and steal copper tubing to sell back to recycling plants. Same with glass and even metal. Looks like scavengers would raid the homes and tear it down to get to the

However, the focus of this paper is to temporary assist those in needs, while residing in the streets. Their current place of home. Hygiene services should be integrated in developing future programs. More agencies should focus on providing toiletry supplies to those that cannot afford them. The disproportionate contribute of toiletries, food and survival clothing from varying sources was not enough to fulfill the goal set. However, a great number of homeless people benefit from some assistance of basic survival needs. Strategies will be implemented to continue to seek contributions to provide an intervention for those sleeping outdoors and disconnected from social service assistance. As poor nutritional status or infection predispose homeless people to health concerns, the need of survival kits can be a means of prolonging such illness.

Upon entering the kitchen which measured at 9 feet 1.5 inches in length and 11 feet 9 inches in width there was various items of evidence. One of the items was a disposable coffee cup measuring 6 ¾ inches in height. It was on top of the kitchen table. The lid was black and the cup was white. It had a cardboard sleeve on it with writing which read “Beat UC Davis Sponsored by ASI Causeway Classic Blood Drive October 20 & 21 10am – 5 pm University Union Ballroom.” There was blood fingerprints on it, approximately seven different fingerprints. The blood prints were only on the sleeve of the cup. Another item of evidence was a kitchen knife which was located on top of the kitchen counter. The knife was 12 inches long and 1 5/8 inches in width. It was approximately 1ft and 4 inches away from the

In the bedroom, I noticed that there was a cup of coffee in the trash can which could have contained fingerprints. There was some pink residue on the upper left part of the bed, which could contain DNA. There were also a wallet and keys on the ground by the right side of the bed. That could contain an ID or possible fingerprints. On the right side of the bed, there were a black ball pen and flashlight which could have fingerprints on it. On the tiles, there were pink stains on the floor by the bottom left of the bed. In addition, the telephone receiver had blood on

Thinking about it, I realize that every day I throw something away that could be saved and eaten later. When I take the trash out there are a number of food items that don’t need to be there. After we finish dinner I am wiping food off of plates and realizing that I’ve made too much. Every time I clean out the fridge there is food going into the garbage because I waited too long to use it. Whatever the reason, I realize that it does affect me in many ways and it’s constantly happening in my home.

Joan ShellabargerANTH 103 Archaeology and CultureFirst Assignment: Garbage!October 2, 2017 The list of garbage I was assigned contained nine empty cans of Arnold Palmer, eight empty bottles of Gatorade, five empty bottles of Dean’s milk, one empty bottle pf pure leaf tea, six bags of snack size chips, three empty Pop tart wrappers, one bag of Milano cookies, four empty plastic food containers, two empty pizza Lunchables, two empty single serving pizza boxes, a banana peel and an empty Old Spice deodorant. Given the contents of the garbage list, I believe my subject is a physically active male, 24 to 35 years of age. Possibly Asian or Caucasian, a college student, and making at least 20,000 a year if not more. Using the data that I located on Real-Time - Consumer Demographics. What is my subject gender? There is evidence to support that I am correct it destemming the gender of my subject’s garbage list as of male gender. Gather from the information from the Real-Time – Consumer - Demographics and by observing the behaviors of men in my family, my subject, likemy husband purchases the majority of his items from Drug Stores, Gas Stations and Convenience stores. My first clue to my subject’s gender was an Old Spice deodorant container, the presence of it to me is a tell-tale sign since Old Spice is typically used by men. The Old Spice – I believe this is my strongest clue to this person being of a male gender. The only hesitation is that my daughters have been known to