American Trash

October 7, 2006 at 4:29 am · Filed under WriteThings

    Each American produces about 2.3 kg of trash a day, a rate about 5 times that in developing countries.
    - via SlashDot

I have a few observations in relation to this:

  • People here keep eating something or the other. I could see people waiting in the Airport lounges with StarBucks cups or wrapped HamBurgers or cookies or HotDog sandwiches. Chicago’s O’Hare airport sells 2M HotDogs every year. Thats 5480 HotDogs a day. And this is “just” HotDogs. Tell me why would anybody who’s in an AirPort would want to eat? Every eatable comes with its own trash.
  • All corporations have all sorts vending machines in their campuses. Machines that stock cookies, drinks, chocolates & water. More the people eat, more the trash.
  • The toilets here are “Dry”. There is water just to flush the basin but not to clean-up your own dirt. So people use reams & reams of toilet paper to wipe-out the last remains. You have problems even when you “just” pee. There aren’t hand driers. Again paper comes in your way.
  • Every damn thing is packed. The wooden spoon which is given when you buy a icecream is packed. Even a pinch of salt & pepper is well packed.
  • When you buy a sandwich they give so many tissue papers that you can keep for other uses. Would atleast last for a week.
  • Also, the people who get their food parcelled outnumber people who sit & eat.
  • I’m In my hotel dining hall, all plates, cups & bowls are made out of disposable plastic. Even the kinfe knife & fork are in plastic.

Trash those Trash. Crush & Curb, or you’ll Crash!

Update #0: Corrected spell & sentence errors.

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