Garbology Chapter 4

Chapter 4 was very interesting to me , there were many great facts to help me with the upcoming essay. For example, David Steiner is a very good person to use to explain how trash can be very important since he is CEO for a trash company. To many it can be a career and I must say, it seems to be a very stable one at that. They were looking for a solution to how trash can be high in value on page 84. The part that I thought was smart was taking out the valuable things from the item and then just throwing away the rest. I feel as if that will decrease the amount of trash being thrown away and will give Puente Hills more time to stay open. I feel that Humes was trying to explain to his readers that these trash companies are doing everything they can to make people throw trash away since they are receiving money, stable money. It seems like a absurd cycle. The government and media brainwash the people to buy, buy, buy and then those consumers throw away their trash into the trash company, giving them money, which then goes back to the government, I think they will keep doing so as it is the cycle of dirty,toxic money. It was sad to read that Puente Hills consumed most of the money saved up for a different solution to the trash nightmare.