Blog 5: Waste

I think the dumpster diving is a little bit extreme. Yes, is true that people throw away stuff that is perfectly useable, but is hard for me to go into someone garbage and start digging their trash. Especially food, I just can’t pick out food from the garbage even though it still in the sill package.


I do sometime see something I like when people pull their trash out the curve, but only visible to me and I don’t have to dig. One time I was going home from work on a Saturday morning, where people pull their trash to the curve waiting for the garbage to make up the trash, were I came across a box of old Lego wrap with a clear plastic bag inside the garbage can. I look at it keep and continue to walk while thinking should take it? I when back and I took the old Lego along with some other stuff in it. Even though I was sleepy, I went to the back yard and pick out just the Lego pieces and discard the other stuff that was in it. I weigh the bag of Lego and it was approximately 10lbs. Then sell it throw Ebay and made a profit of $25.


In my neighborhood, I see most of the neighbors get mad if you go into to their property and digging their garbage for soda cans. Usually people leave a mess after looking for stuff or some neighbor will say, if the garbage is still in my property it’s still ours. You have to wait when the garbage can are pull to the curve.


The stuff that we consume everyday is making our planet a wasteland but at least Chris Jordan put it in an artistic form of what he we can appreciate his art. One the portrait that I like was the Running the Numbers. It was using millions of millions of the same stuff and making it into a portrait. The portrait was most interesting was the Prison Uniforms, 2007. Even though it was simple portrait, but I found it hard to believe that “2.3 million prison uniforms was the equal number of Americans incarcerated.” Jordan, Chris the Prison Uniforms. Couples of these portraits are made from millions of plastic. I consume three plastic bottle of water a day and that it everyone is doing that, it can be very scary if he can build a planet just plastic bottle. I need to change my habit from plastic to glass bottle.

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The worst problem caused by global warming is the unusual severe weather that we encounter in recent years. Human produce the greenhouse gas emissions throw usage of cars and nuclear power plants. The more greenhouse gas emissions in our atmosphere, the warmer the weather gets which will leaves to global warming. The warmer the oceans get the stronger and more powerful the hurricanes get. Hurricanes feeds throw large bodies of warm water and moister in the air. Once it hits land the hurricane will lose its strength and eventually disappear. The coastal cities area gets the most damaging during hurricanes session. Instead of using the money to rebuild damages aftermath of the hurricanes, we should think of a solution how we reverse global warming.


There are two types of energy. “Renewable energy which energy generated from natural resource such as biofuels from plants, hydro power produce by water falls, solar energy by using sun light, wave power from the ocean energy waves, and wind power from wind energy. Non-Renewable Energy which is strictly depending on natural resource that cannot be man made. These resources are fixed amount on earth such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas.”[1] We need to shift to from Non-Renewable Energy to Renewable Energy. “Renewable Energy will prevent global warming pollution, reduce dependence on imported fuel, and ease the price of natural gas. Sadly United States was only responsible for about 2% of using solar energy which uses light from the sun to convert into energy to power their houses. Other counties such as European use 12% and China use 62% of the total world solar capacity by country.”[2] We are living one the most develop countries in the world and yet we are using old technologies. We rely heavy on the petroleum and we have to depend on the Middle East countries to supply us oil.

In order to spread to the public of these innovations technologies is advertisement to educate consumers. We can save money in the long run and the most important of all is reducing global warming.

[1] “U.S. Department of Energy. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy” 8 Oct. 2008

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[2] Del Chiaro, Bernadette. “Solar Water Heating. How California Can Reduce Its Dependence on Natural Gas” Environment California on the Web April 2007 < http://www.environmentcalifornia.org/uploads/at/56/at563bKwmfrtJI6fKl9U_w/Solar-Water-Heating.pdf >