American Trash
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
kinfeknife & fork are in plastic.
Trash those Trash. Crush & Curb, or you’ll Crash!
Update #0: Corrected spell & sentence errors.
satheesh said,
October 7, 2006 at 10:09 am
The problems and statistics quoted by you are absolutely true dude. Westerners trash a lot in the name of hygiene. As long as they are resuing those papers, I have no concern.
Yes. recycling indeed is costly. But American economy is fuelled by this stupid spendings of people there. Isn’t it?
satheesh said,
October 7, 2006 at 4:39 am
The problems and statistics quoted by you are absolutely true dude. Westerners trash a lot in the name of hygiene. As long as they are resuing those papers, I have no concern.
Yes. recycling indeed is costly. But American economy is fuelled by this stupid spendings of people there. Isn't it?
Ranjhith said,
October 8, 2006 at 8:06 am
Satheesh,
> But American economy is fuelled by this stupid
> spendings of people there.
I cannot agree that. What do you call stupidity in spendings?
ranjhith said,
October 8, 2006 at 2:36 am
Satheesh,
> But American economy is fuelled by this stupid
> spendings of people there.
I cannot agree that. What do you call stupidity in spendings?
satheesh said,
October 9, 2006 at 9:56 am
stupid spending – I meant those money spent on trash!
satheesh said,
October 9, 2006 at 4:26 am
stupid spending – I meant those money spent on trash!
Janitri said,
October 11, 2006 at 12:42 pm
That really shows cleaniliess… than the thing which we use here. In one of the hotels at Delhi, I even complained saying that the plates were not wahsed proprely. People remain healthy this way.
Snacks at office is mandatory. Even Infy/Wipro has this facility in India.
But a nice analysis
Janitri said,
October 11, 2006 at 7:12 am
That really shows cleaniliess… than the thing which we use here. In one of the hotels at Delhi, I even complained saying that the plates were not wahsed proprely. People remain healthy this way.
Snacks at office is mandatory. Even Infy/Wipro has this facility in India.
But a nice analysis
Ranjhith said,
October 11, 2006 at 10:32 pm
Janitri,
> Snacks at office is mandatory. Infy/Wipro has this facility in India.
Ho! This is news to me. May be they want to live up to the US Standards. >:O)
ranjhith said,
October 11, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Janitri,
> Snacks at office is mandatory. Infy/Wipro has this facility in India.
Ho! This is news to me. May be they want to live up to the US Standards. >:O)