Garbology Chapter 10

 Chapter 10 was eye catching to me because instead of just talking the talk, Andy Keller made a solution to our trash crisis. His focus was on the plastic bags, he went to the landfill and was astonished by the amount of plastic bags dumped there. He came up with a solution, and Humes says he wasn't even a skilled worker in this particular subject. He started making reusable bags to substitute plastic bags called ChicoBags. He started selling them but it was slow as many of us know that people find it more convenient to just get plastic bags. I think he is very smart for selling it to schools as funrasier instaed of candies that schools already selled. This way, it was healthy and eco-friendly. Schools started to sell them and Keller relly got dediated to it as he would go edcuare the students on the amount of plastic nags being used. Humes says they did an experiment where everyone would get as much plastic bags as they had form home, bring it to school, and see how many times it wnet arounf the school. Everyone was surpiresded with the amount. Keller breally opened the eyes of many. He also came up with "Bag Monster" it was sort of like a mascot as u can see in the picture above. Humes states that schools loved hime and would want him to go make demonstrations about why plastic bags are bad. He even made a website about bag monster and he made tour where he would show people why plastic was bad and his friends helped by doing the same. He really is passionate about trying to ban plastic bags! Sadly plastic bag companise started getting mad with the Bag Monster, but then Humes states that San Francisco banned the use of plastic bags in grocery stores! There were so many other places that took the heat from plastic companies and it became a plastic war!