Garbology Intro

   Although garbage is not what most are intrigued by, it has become very fascinating me. The fact that people have died because of their own trash really goes to show how much trash can impact your life. There can be a vary of arguments about trash. One can say that hoarding is wrong and that the trash should be thrown away but then another says by throwing items, it is waste as it can be used again. I was confused until one part of the book made me understand the truth. It was in the intro and it basically said that all people are considered hoarders some to landfills and others to their homes. We all throw things away but what was amazingly horrifying to me was how much exactly. In chapter one, it is said that there is 12,000 tons of trash a day! Either way we are all hoarders. Americans alone throw away around 389.5 million tons of trash and is still going. Day by day it just adds and adds. I also found it interesting to read about Zhang Yin who was China's first woman billionaire. The humorous part was it was that those billions of dollars started from a paper company who would take America's thrown out pieces of paper send it to China and then China would turn it into cardboard boxes thatwere  shipped to America, then America would throw it away again. It was like a money cycle. Another way of making money out of trash was Harvard's yard sales which was made up of abandoned items in the dorms of the students. It is very successful and seems like a great way to get rid of trash but my question is...aren't all the items in that yard sale going to be thrown into a landfill in a few years anyways? It just seems like no matter what we do trash will always be around.