Garbology Chapter 1

   In chapter one we learn about Puente Hills landfill which was built by Mike Speiser for the most part. Puente Hills has become LA's trash can having over 130 million tons of trash. It was very surprising to find out how much trash is actually thrown away. They use the BOMAG which is basically used to crush the trash and turned into piles of trash which look like mountains. It's hard to grasp the idea that people like you and me are the reason we need to use BOMAG and why Puente Hills is wasted as dump instead of something more important. It is horrifying to imagine hundreds of thousands of dirty diapers and rotting foods all stuck in one place and adds by the second. The fact that this has been a ongoing issue for decades is what annoys me. With all the technology and new inventions out there why is it so difficult to get rid of trash? Why is it that the one thing that has a huge impact on the environment is not given the attention it needs. The scariest part to me was reading about how one day all this trash could collapse on us. How can something this big not register into my head every single time I would throw away an item, it was being thrown into Puente Hills landfill.