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