Garbage, and What It Says About US
Rubbish, trash, refuse we all produce these as byproducts of or lives but what do they say about us? A Classic Titled Rubbish, recently written by Cullen Murphy, and William Rathje is a very interesting exercise in this line of though. This realm of archelogy originated in1973, the study of human waste. This book by Murphy and Rathie follows the pioneered discoveries about what waste tell us about our society, and others. There is a fascinating amount of detailed behavior which can be uncovered, and discovered by sorting through rubbish. Through looking at trash during times of production of scarcity, for example, this is a primary way in which this form of archelogy is useful.
Another major fact presented in the book was by, Dr. Rathie’s team’s discoveries that current landfills are not currently being filled up with things like disposable diaper, rather his studies shows those sort of objects only make up 1%. To support an argument that composting biodegradable plastics; the PLA industry (the corn plastic industry), commonly uses quotes from Dr. Rathie’s book to build a supporting argument for biodegradable plastics. The PLA industry is pulled from some out of context data, by looking at the hundred-year-old “poor” environmental designs of landfills. At the time of the original printing of “RUBISH!” was in 1991;
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This mean that the say physical land space would last even longer, whereas normally it would have been filled up over 25 years ago. The key to utilizing anaerobic bio degeneration with organic garbage is that it creates a greater value proposition over composting. What is off-gassed is CO2 which is released into the atmosphere as a GHG. With composting, the organic material is artificially processed to accelerate aerobic biodegradation resulting in compost material which makes a great rich