Edward Humes Garbology - Chapter 7

This chapter talks about a project that bring up the concept of "smart trash". Smart trash was a  project created by MIT and scientist and artist of the SENSEable city Lab. This project consisted on giving selected trash a trackers.Volunteers were invited for the project and they would be giving their trash and after putting the trash trackers on their trash, they would disposed the trash like they would normally do. This project allowed scientists to track where the trash was heading after being disposed and how many places they would travel before they arrive to the place were they belong. The project took place on Seattle a green community that recycle about 50 % of the trash that came to the town. Also, I found very interesting that Seattle residents are not only a green community but their system charge them the amount of trash they produce instead of a monthly fee like they do in CA. If California would accept this kind of system people would be reducing their trash and managing to create less. This is a good incentive for that people but it would be a good one for us as well because everyone like to save money and we wouldn't be solving money but as well producing less trash. We need that system urgently so California residents pay attention to the amount trash they dispose. We will be paying a fair fee for our trash and we will be contributing to the planet. Lets work together and make this happen.