There are a slew of good people who helped me write this piece. When John Boe‚ my UWP journalism professor‚ announced that we could write on literally anything we wanted‚ I felt like a housecat looking out the front door. Unsure of where to step‚ and without any of my own ideas‚ I asked my good friend Liz what I should write about. It was she who turned me on to the Davis “dumpster diving” culture and its protest of the food industry through gleaning. These gleaners‚ whose names I changed to protect
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Reading the “Dumpster Diving” essay put me in the perspective that we throw away a lot of different things that may seem like junk or trash to us. However‚ “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure‚” and what may be trash to us is the way of life for someone else . Lars Eighner describes his experience in dumpster diving‚ and while doing so‚ he makes a comment in the essay to say he would prefer to call dumpster diver “scavenging.” Eighner writes this essay to tell everyone about his years he
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RUBBISH! The Archaeology of GarbageBook Review The book titled Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage by WilliamRathje and Cullen Murphy was a very interesting read. Created in1973‚ the archeology of garbage was a program primarily created as an exercise in archeology for students at the University of Arizona-Tucson. The most fascinating aspect of the book is the discoveries of what our garbage tells about us as a society. It was interesting the amount of detailed behavior that can be discovered by
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There’s always the possibility that the problem is humankind‚ and the chance that the human race could potentially recognize mistakes‚ wrongdoings‚ and backward progress. Moreover‚ beginning with defining the process of throwing away garbage‚ simply states that a person gets rid of what they don’t wish to see anymore. Throwing away trash is a quick and effortless way to get trash out of sight. Is easy always the best verdict? Concluding that immeasurable amounts of garbage plague locations‚ distort
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Do you just throw your recyclable items in the trash or do you actually put them in your recycling bin where it should be? Did you know that your water bottle or milk jug could actually be useful for something other than holding a liquid? Well recyclable items can be made into art too! Art is much more than Leonardo Da Vinci and Romero Brito. Art can be made from water bottles‚ milk jugs‚ toilet paper rolls‚ and even tissue boxes! A couple styles of art from the earth are street art or “rubbish”
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I personally think going green is the best way to go‚ why throw recyclebles away thats filling up the landfill in Gatesburg. Phoenix Arizona makes appoxametly 500 millian dollars a year by selling its recyclebles. It also will exspand the life of not only Gatesburg landfill‚ but landfills all over America. To start with‚ i have recycled many of times‚ its about the easiest thing i have ever done. So why throw it way support staying green for Gatesburg .it not only saves ur garbage can space
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DIPACULAO CENTRAL SCHOOL Dipaculao‚ Aurora Title:The Effectiveness of Styroglue in School/Home Projects Abstract: Styrofoam and gasoline are known as roof sealant. Some people use this to patch holes in their roofs. The researchers found out that a mixture of gasoline and Styrofoam is not only used as roof sealant but also an alternate for commercial glue/stick glue‚ and it can be used to do crafts or projects in school or at home. The mixture of gasoline and Styrofoam was applied to
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Saving America In todays world it is common knowledge of the issues with recycling and pollution. However‚ there is a way to help slow down the process of over-running our earth. A new initiative is being spoken about‚ three trash cans for each method of recycling:compost‚ paper and plastic‚ and landfill. Other ways include recycling centers‚ projects for turning your no longer useable items into recycled treasures. I firmly believe in adopting and putting these into practice in our United States
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Chapter I Problem and Its Setting Introduction As the population rise here in our country‚ the accumulation of waste is also becoming a problem which is more difficult for the management to find a best solution. One of the issues is a rise in either biodegradable or non-biodegradable waste materials. The most common method for disposing waste material is on land‚ a process that can be observed in most countries and amounts to a high level of global municipal waste. Landfills
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Recycling: make it the law? In 2013 we produced 254 million tons of waste. Of this 254 million tons: we recycled 34%‚ which isn’t a bad number. But of the rest of our waste that ends up in landfills: half could be recycled. That’s 84 million tons of waste that could be reused. So why are we just letting it get buried with the rest of our garbage? Recycling may be expensive and inconvenient in the beginning. But research shows the long term benefits of mandatory recycling programs. These benefits
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