Living with Your Waste

         I've been doing a little research on solid waste for my term paper & came across this study of people trying to live with their waste. At first it sounded dirty and a little too wierd for me. However, once I started reading the report I became infactuated with it. Basically, workers refused to pick up any more garbage from its community in the Italian City of Naples. Soon people's homes and streets were piled with municipal waste. So what could they do? I believe it's our human nature to adapt to our situations especially ones that threaten our functioning of life. People could catergorize, organize, and contain thier waste through creative methods. For instance, organize their plastic bags or possibly use magnets as a way to keep all of their alluminum cans together. This is something we don't do or where our environmentally friendly behaviors may lack. By being forced to live with their waste people began to understand and see first hand how much garbage they individually or as a family produce in one day, a week, or a month. Thus, they create strategies in order to manage their personal waste which can lead to more proactive means to help the environment. With organized waste it is easier to recycle ALL the right products and lower the amount of waste going to the landfills.

Do you think the U.S. could endure such a task? Why or why not.

Link: http://www.miket.co.uk/images/My_Beautiful_Garbage.pdf