Review of Garbology by Edward Humes Chapter 3

Going into this chapter, I had negative thoughts towards Big Mike and why he loves working at Puente Hills, but that all changed when Humes mentions how Big Mike can see people's prized possessions being thrown away. It is just awful to think how can people dispose items that could last a couple of years, but most of all how could they dispose items that have sentimental value to them. Just when you think Puente Hills was chaotic enough due to how trash it contains, think again, that place has quite some stories. It is crazy enough to visualize how much trash is placed there, but the most disguising part of it is how body parts were hidden with the trash. Humes continues to mention as well how pigs were still used to eat our trash, which again I find disguising because to think when we eat pork, we are also eating the trash they ate. Also within the chapter, I find it interesting how Humes included information about two individuals, Lippincott and Packward (opposites), and their views on how Americans buy and waste in which becomes a cycle.