Trash Diary: Day 5, Final Day

Here is my final result of the week! Not too shabby I must say! got pretty full at the end but it is a lot better than I expected. I have to admit, this assignment was interesting. Odd, but interesting. It had meaning behind it which is what matters most. Though this assignment is over, who knows? Maybe this will make me a little more diligent with my trash collection.

So this final load is a mixture of a few things. Another active yogurt, a package wrap that came from the mail that had some new black t-shirts that fit, a few old pieces of paper, and a few miscellaneous items because my dog had apparently at some point on friday, gotten up on my dresser and have a snack on my materials and break a few things...

THE LAST DAY!!!

 

It's the last day for the trash diary..... Yeah!

I just notice that I got my trash can full in one week. That's not a short time, I think... So pretty much That means I don't have so much trash!! I feel really good about myself about my trash.

If I do some analysis:

70% of my trash comes from food: friut pores, snack bags, the meals I can't finish and the plastic bags I used to take food. Many of these can't be changed; they are trash, but they are not waste.

20%  of my trash are paper I used: Text I printed out, homework paper I don't need, article I have read, and notes. Some of them I don't need to get a paper copy at all; however, I feel more comfortable to read in paper. Now I'm trying to use my IPAD as much as possible, and that can help me save a lot of paper.

10% are some additional trash from everywhere, and I can't classify them. But I'm pretty sure I'm not wasting....

OH,let's talk about something special.

Plasitic bags!!!!

I don't need to mention how damage plastic bags can do for the environment, because almost everyone knows that. However, the overuse of plastic bags increases rapidly. Last time I went to Walmart, the people who helped me check out give me too many extra bags. Do I need to separate the Yogort and cheesecake? They just gave me two bags for these! The first picture shows how many plastic bags I saved because I don't like to throw them away.... I wanted to use them as trash bags, but I think I have too many now....

That really need to change. Hope someone can solve this problem.

day4

contrary to my previous beliefs, I ended up producing less waste on one of the days following my previous days. However, the packaging for this capri sun is bigger than previous capri sons, so I dont know which is better, less waste, or a larger container. Food for thought i guess

Day 5- Trash Diary 

I had a water bottle, a package of fruit snacks, a receipt, a lunch card and a paper from science. That's not a bad amount of trash. This project has been really eyes opening. I don't consume a lot of trash and that makes me feel good. I know there are more steps that I can take to make the earth more healthy and green. I've enjoyed this project.   

Sept18+19

The first photo was taken spet 18th, Trash for that day was just 2 bananas and several tissues.
How do we dissolve tissues?
Optimizing the concentration, temperature, flow, and surface tension can improve the tissue-dissolving effectiveness of hypochlorite even 50-fold.
Also, how do we deal with tissues issues at home?
Throw them into the toilet, because the water could dissolve it too.
Food Trash:
How much weight of food trash could be produced by the U.S and global.
In the United States, 31 percent—or 133 billion pounds—of the 430 billion pounds of the available food supply at the retail and consumer levels in 2010 went uneaten. The estimated value of this food loss was $161.6 billion using retail prices. For the first time, ERS estimated the calories associated with food loss: 141 trillion in 2010, or 1,249 calories per capita per day.
-------According to SoSA, Food Waste

SPET 19th

Because yesterday's trash was full, I started a new one.
I started to look at food waste because it surprised me that the most daily trash I have got was the food trash, just like what I thought, according to my research In many developing countries, post-harvest losses of food grains can reach as high as 50%.  This large amount of waste does not only happen in the developing countries, but also happens in the U.S  According a research which was done in 2004,
it was showed that 50% of all food ready for harvest in the United States never gets EATEN!!!

SOLUTION:
Limit the amount of food/fruit that one person could be able to get.
Limit the amount of food/fruit the restaurant could produce for each person.
Increase the tax on food.
Have more AD about food waste.
Require students to take classes about environmental problems.


PLASTIC BAGS:
I feel soooo sorry that I used plastic bag again....

PROBLEMS:
1 bag=1000 years to break down.
It would still have impact on earth after it has broken down.
The U.S. goes through 100 billion single-use plastic bags. This costs retailers about $4 billion a year.


SOLUTion:
I have mentioned so many time about it before this post....
1st
Encourage people to use paper bags! Charge them if they have to use plastic!
2ND
Created a plastic tax for people who use it and companies who produce it!

Trash day 5

Today's waste was more routine. My morning trash consisted of the Emergen-C packet, while my afternoon trash consisted of the Hersheys candy wrapper. Today's trash also consisted of a cheetos bag and a water bottle at lunch. Unfortunatly the bag and water bottle were too eager to get to the trash and did so before I could remember to shoot a photo of them. Through out this project, I realized my trash contributions while aren't terribly big, occur on a daily basis. Of course this average amount of daily trash will add up very quickly, especially since other people also have an average amount of daily trash that varies from person to person. However, I fully realzied how quickly trash adds up after watching the first half the "Trashed" movie in class today. We tend to think little of that empty bag of chips we just carelessly discarded into the trash can, but if even 300 million people throw away even one chip bag a day, think about how quickly that can add up. I also realized how much of my waste is actually non-recyclable trash. I believe that is because  I consume a lot of chips and packaged foodstuff  that DON'T come in any sort of recyclable packaging, its all just throw away. In terms of packaged foodstuff, the waste isn't entirely on the consumer end as food industries will sometimes put less content in a bigger bag. This leads to wasted space and extra unnecessary trash. Of course that doesn't matter as long as the industry gets its paycheck.


Yo dawg I heard you like food waste statistics, so I put some statistics with you statistics, do you want fries with that?
Did you know:
-About 40% of food in the good ole U.S.A goes to waste. Hmm maybe I should rethink about what to do with all those not-quite-empty chip bags sitting on my counter...
-More than 97% of all that wasted foodstuff ends up in a landfill. While not fit for human consumption, I'm sure were helping end world hunger for all those being born of toxic, radioactive slime.
-Oh ya that 97% of wasted foodstuff sitting in landfills? That equates to about 33 million tons. Look out ladies and gents we have a new heavy weight champ, and boy is he a waste of space.

source: http://www.endfoodwastenow.org/index.php/resources/facts

Here's a pic of all those uneaten chip bags

Alex Trash 

9/18/14 as well as 9/19/14

(didn't get 9/17/14 trash, but the Wendy's bag was all that was added)

Recycling from week

9/16/14