Garbology Chapter 2

   Chapter two begins with New York and how they basically turned the city into a dump before landfills of trash were created. I find it humorous that New York was known as the pigs, now it is one of the most popular states out there. It was vile to find out that the sea men would smell the trash from miles and miles away, goes to show how filthy it was there. Then health issues rose and finally they came to their senses that trash is the number one issue. They began to collect the trash and recycle which would take away some of the filth off the streets, at least. The landfills were not made like the Puente Hills it was a opened spaced bug infested land. There were so many problems with the health codes and finical matters, making it difficult to clean up NYC tot he fullest. Although NYC was not the only city to be filled with trash and filth, it was one of the worst. Why not burn the trash? That seemed like such a great idea right? well, thats what I thought until I read about dangerous and poisonous the fumes were.The Smokey Joes as they were called added so much pollution making the environment cancerous and horrifyingly dangerous.Doing so would not better the trash problem. It added problems. What other ways are their to get rid of all this trash?