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.