Every day we bag and throw away our trash, but never really think about where it actually goes. The trash is emptied into the garbage trucks back where the worker throws it and it is compressed. The garbage has this stop called the “transfer station” (Rogers 188) which unloads it. According to the author of the essay Heather Rogers in “The Hidden Life of Garbage”
(188), landfills and trash that are building every day are making the environment polluted, which is truly astonishing.
The author is describing from her thesis statement that the garbage is isolated, reserved, and surround by protection. “Although the great majority of our castoffs go to the landfills, they are places the public is not meant to see” (Rogers 188-189). Since the garbage
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Landfills are built on top of these “liners” (Rogers 190) which basically separate the rainwater from being contaminated by the garbage and toxins that come from it.
The author honestly gave facts and detailed descriptions as to what exactly happens behind the scenes and how the public never sees what truly happens, but if they did they would question why and how this mess can be erased. The fact is there is only so much corporations can do with the waste that is being distributed from the public and the amount of waste they have to bury.
In conclusion, Rogers thesis states “Although the great majority of our castoffs go to the landfills, they are places the public is not meant to see” (188-189). In the essay it describes how the landfills are starting to pile up after so many decades, the amount of waste each person distributes, and how in the future these methods that these companies are using will eventually ruin the environment. The public will be blamed for what the majority of them have absolutely no idea is even happening to our waste once it leaves our trash bins. Truthfully, if the public ever saw what was really going on they would be