Eighner / On Dumpster Diving name for these objects. From time to time I have heard a 677 807 ertation: Eighner's homeless. 17 begins rinition: Dumpster Dumpsters. I do not know anyone who knows the generic wino or hobo give some corrupted credit to the original and call them Dipsy Dumpsters. I began Dumpster diving about a year before I became 2 I prefer the word scavenging and use the word scrounging 3 when I mean to be obscure. I have heard people, evidently meaning to be polite, use the word foraging, but I prefer to reserve that word for gathering nuts and berries and such, which I do also according to the season and the opportu- nity. Dumpster diving seems to me to be a little too cute and, in my case, inaccurate because I lack the athletic ability to lower myself into the Dumpsters as the true divers do, much to their increased profit. I like the frankness of the word scavenging, which I can 4 hardly think of without picturing a big black snail on an aquarium wall. I live from the refuse of others. I am a scav- enger. I think it a sound and honorable niche, although if I could I would naturally prefer to live the comfortable consumer life, perhaps - and only perhaps - as a slightly less wasteful consumer, owing to what I have learned as a Narration: story continues fremplification: tings found in Dumpsters scavenger. While Lizbeth and I were still living in the shack on 5 Avenue B as my savings ran out, I put almost all my spo- radic income into rent. The necessities of daily life I began to extract from Dumpsters. Yes, we ate from them. Except for jeans, all my clothes came from Dumpsters. Boom boxes, candles, bedding, toilet paper, a virgin male love doll, medicine, books, a typewriter, dishes, furnishings, and change, sometimes amounting to many dollars - I acquired many things from Dumpsters. I have learned much as a scavenger. I mean to put 6 some of what I have learned down here, beginning with the practical art of Dumpster diving and proceeding to the abstract. Thesis statement 7 What is safe to eat? After all, the finding of objects is becoming some- 8 thing of an urban art. Even respectable employed people will sometimes find something tempting sticking out of a Dumpster or standing beside one. Quite a number of peo- ple, not all of them of the bohemian type, are willing to brag that they found this or that piece of trash. But eating from Dumpsters is what separates the dilettanti from the professionals . Eating safely from the Dumpsters involves three principles: using the senses and common sense to 682 Chapter 15 Combining the Patterns cal Eig to himself and arouses suspicion. Diving at night is inef. fective and needlessly messy.) Every grain of rice seems to be a maggot. Everything 33 seems to stink. He can wipe the egg yolk off the found can, but he cannot erase from his mind the stigma of eating garbage. That stage passes with experience. The scavenger finds 34 a pair of running shoes that fit and look and smell brand- new. He finds a pocket calculator in perfect working order. He finds pristine ice cream, still frozen, more than he can eat or keep. He begins to understand: People throw away perfectly good stuff, a lot of perfectly good stuff. At this stage, Dumpster shyness begins to dissipate. 35 The diver, after all, has the last laugh. He is finding all manner of good things that are his for the taking. Those who disparage his profession are the fools, not he. He may begin to hang on to some perfectly good 36 things for which he has neither a use nor a market. Then he begins to take note of the things that are not perfectly good but are nearly so. He mates a Walkman with bro- ken earphones and one that is missing a battery cover. He picks up things that he can repair. At this stage he may become lost and never recover. 37 Dumpsters are full of things of some potential value to someone and also of things that never have much intrinsic value but are interesting. All the Dumpster divers I have known come to the point of trying to acquire everything they touch. Why not take it, they reason, since it is all free? This is, of course, hopeless. Most divers come to realize that they must restrict themselves to items of relatively Con con in rid arec Caus peor immediate utility. But in some cases the diver simply can- not control himself. I have met several of these pack-rat types. Their ideas of the values of various pieces of junk verge on the psychotic. Every bit of glass may be a dia- mond, they think, and all that glisters,* gold. I tend to gain weight when I am scavenging. Partly 3 this is because I always find far more pizza and doughnuts than water-packed tuna, nonfat yogurt, and fresh vegeta Cause and effect: why Eighner gains weight when he scavenges bles. Also I have not developed much faith in the reliabil- ity of Dumpsters as a food source, although it has been proven to me many times. I tend to eat as if I have no idea where my next meal is coming from. But mostly I just hate to see food go to waste and so I eat much more than I should. Something like this drives the obsession to collect junk. * Eds. note - Glitters. HEATHER ROGERS The Hidden Life of Garbage Journalist Heather Rogers (b. 1970) has written articles on the environmental effects of mass production and consumption for the New York Times Magazine, the Utne Reader, Architecture, and a variety of other publications. Her 2002 doc umentary film Gone Tomorrow. The Hidden Life of Garbage has been screened at festivals around the world and served as the basis for a book of the same title. Named an Editor's Choice by the New York Times and the Guardian, the book, published in 2005, traces the history and politics of household garbage in the United States, drawing connections between modern industrial production, excerpt from that book, Rogers provides a detailed description of a giant land- consumer culture, and our contemporary throwaway lifestyle. In the following fill in central Pennsylvania and asks readers to think about the ramifications of accumulating so much trash. Her most recent book is Green Gone Wrong: How ques- Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution (2010). Background on waste disposal Human beings have always faced the tion of how to dispose of garbage. The first city dump was established in ancient Athens, and the government of Rome had begun the collection of municipal trash by 200 C.E. Even as late as the 1800s, garbage was, at worst, simply thrown out into the streets of U.S. cities or dumped into rivers and ditches; in more enlightened communities, it might have been carted to foul-smelling open dumps or burned in incinerators, creating clouds of dense smoke. Experiments with systematically covering the garbage in dumps began as early as the 1920s, and the first true "sanitary landfill" as it was called, was created in Fresno, California, in 1937. Today, more than 60 percent of the solid waste in the United States ends up in land- fills , and the amount of waste seems to keep growing. According to the Energy Information Administration, the amount of waste produced in the United States has more than doubled in the past thirty years, and it is estimated that the avera age American generates an astounding 45 pounds of trash every day. each household's waste bin into the truck's rear compaction unit. Hydraulic creep along neighborhood collection routes. A worker empties the contents of In the dark chill of early morning, heavy steel garbage trucks chug and 1 When the rig is full, the collector heads to a garbage depot called a "transfer compressors scoop up and crush the dross, cramming it into the enclosed hull. station” to unload. From there the rejectamenta is taken to a recycling thanks to the relative low cost of burial and North America's abundant sup Land dumping has long been the favored disposal method in the U.S. ? ply of unused acreage. Although the great majority of our castoffs Today's garbage graveyards center fills , they are places the public is not meant to see. 184 go to land- Eighner / On Dumpster Diving only 685 07 Despite all of this sensitive information, I have had 51 one apartment resident object to my going through the Dumpster. In that case it turned out the resident was a university athlete who was taking bets and who was afraid I would turn up his wager slips. Occasionally a find tells a story. I once found a small 52 paper bag containing some unused condoms, several partial tubes of flavored sexual lubricants, a partially used compact of birth-control pills, and the torn pieces of a picture of a young man. Clearly she was through with him and planning to give up sex altogether. Dumpster things are often sad – abandoned teddy 53 bears, shredded wedding books, despaired-of sales kits. I find many pets lying in state in Dumpsters. Although I hope to get off the streets so that Lizbeth can have a long and comfortable old age, I know this hope is not very real- istic. So I suppose when her time comes she too will go into a Dumpster. I will have no better place for her. And after all, it is fitting, since for most of her life her livelihood has come from the Dumpster. When she finds something I think is safe that has been spilled from a Dumpster, I let her have it. She already knows the route around the best ones. I like to think that if she survives me she will have a chance of evading the dog catcher and of finding her sus- tenance on the route. Silly vanities also come to rest in the Dumpsters. I am 54 a rather accomplished needleworker. I get a lot of material from the Dumpsters. Evidently sorority girls, hoping to impress someone, perhaps themselves, with their mastery of a womanly art, buy a lot of embroider-by-number kits, work a few stitches horribly, and eventually discard the whole mess. I pull out their stitches, turn the canvas over, and work an original design. Do not think I refrain from chuckling as I make gifts from these kits. I find diaries and journals. I have often thought of 55 compiling a book of literary found objects. And perhaps I will one day. But what I find is hopelessly commonplace and bad without being, even unconsciously, camp. College students also discard their papers. I am horrified to discover the kind of paper that now merits an A in an undergradu- ate course. I am grateful, however, for the number of good books and magazines the students throw out. In the area I know best I have never discovered vermin 56 in the Dumpster, but there are two kinds of kitty surprise. One is alley cats whom I meet as they leap, claws first, out of Dumpsters. This is especially thrilling when I have Lizbeth in tow. The other kind of kitty surprise is a plastic 686 Chapter 15 Combining the Patterns garbage bag filled with some ponderous, amorphous mass. This always proves to be used cat litter. City bees harvest doughnut glaze and this makes 57 interesting the Dumpster at the doughnut shop more My faith in the instinctive wisdom of animals is always shaken whenever I see Lizbeth attempt to catch a bee in her mouth, which she does whenever bees are present. Evidently some birds find Dumpsters profitable, for birdie surprise is almost as common as kitty surprise of the first kind. In hunting season all kinds of small game turn up in Dumpsters, some of it, sadly, not entirely dead. Curiously, summer and winter, maggots are uncommon. The worst of the living and near-living hazards of the 58 Dumpsters are the fire ants. The food they claim is not much of a loss, but they are vicious and aggressive. It is very easy to brush against some surface of the Dumpster and pick up half a dozen or more fire ants, usually in some sensitive area such as the underarm. One advantage of bringing Lizbeth along as I make Dumpster rounds is that, for obvious reasons, she is very alert to ground-based fire ants. When Lizbeth recognizes a fire-ant infestation around our feet, she does the Dance of the Zillion Fire Ants. I have learned not to ignore this warning from Lizbeth, whether I perceive the tiny ants or not, but to remove ourselves at Lizbeth's first pas de bourée. * All the more so because the ants are the worst in the summer months when I wear flip-flops if I have them. (Perhaps someone will misunderstand this. Lizbeth does the Dance of the Zillion Fire Ants when she recognizes more fire ants than she cares to eat, not when she is being bitten. Since I have learned to react promptly, she does not get bitten at all. It is the isolated patrol of fire ants that falls in Lizbeth's range that deserves pity. She finds them quite tasty.) By far the best way to go through a Dumpster is to 59 lower yourself into it. Most of the good stuff tends to settle at the bottom because it is usually weightier than the rubbish. My more athletic companions have often demon- strated to me that they can extract much good material from a Dumpster I have already been over. To those psychologically or physically unprepared to 60 enter a Dumpster, I recommend a stout stick, preferably with some barb or hook at one end. The hook can be used to grab plastic garbage bags. When I find canned goods or other objects loose at the bottom of a Dumpster, I lower Cause and results of E experience scavenger Process: how to go through a Dumpster * Eds, note - A ballet step. Eds such Ahmed Professor Decembe ENGLISH 1. 2 harmful gases. Some waste composed by the landfill can be recycled such as food, paper and paperboard, rubber, leather and textiles, of plastic. Also, it focuses in the industries who might find an alternative to conserves natural resources, by producing about reusable materials or by reusing the usable materials such as steel and wood. --Newton, John. “The Effects of Landfills on the Environment”, Sciencing, Apr 19, Kew Gardens slaying bafti brought to life is © 2018. https://sciencing.com/effects-landfills-environment-8662463.html. This article shows the Landfills effect on humans that are exposed to the contamination of underground water, air pollution, soil and land, because of the release of toxic chemicals. Also, affects the nature, some changes shown in the local species where fragment some mammals and birds replaced by species that feed on refuse, for instance rats and crows and also some plant species replaced another species. why? XRogers, Heather "The Hidden Life of Garbage”, published in the book of Patterns of College Writing by Kirszner, Laurie G. & Mandell, Stephen R., 2015. The Hidden life Garbage is a documentary film in 2002. Then written as a book in 2005 about the garbage in USA. Rogers focused on three main points: The amount of waste keeps growing, average American generate an astounding 4.5 pounds of trash every day. The system and the process of getting rid of the garbage is a short-term solution, on the long term the underground water will be contaminated. The state of the-art regulation should be more environmentally responsible, because most of garbage linear expected to "last between 30-50 years... the liability private landfill operators are subject to 30 years after a site is ends, 을 ge of this Ahmed Decembe 1 Ronza Qasawa English 120 Date: 11/4/18 Dumping is Easy Cleaning is Not Bibliography lars AEighner , Laser. “On Dumpster Diving”, published in the book of Patterns of College Kirszner, Laurie G. & Mandell, Stephen R., 2015, PP. 14th ed. edited by => Writing Blue The author became homeless for three years, lived on items and food he used from the dumpster, wrote a book Travelling with Lizbeth (1993) using the computer he zes got from the dumpster. He categories the garbage into items related to food, items related br to furniture, electronics and others. He writes the Art of Dumpster Diving and what-are- OF HAPPINESS Kew G the rules in scavenging those items such as choosing the right food at the right place to be sure it is safe to eat. Also, the article brings the attention of the readers of how much we waste useful stuff and he gives ideas of recycling those items for instance he repaired the select the Anticip computer he found in the dumpster and used it to write his story. that sticks with * Kinhal, Vijayalaxmi. “What Impact Does Recycling Have on the Environment?”, iness is becau: - LoveToKnow, © 2006-2018 LoveToKnow, Corp. iends and far https://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/How_Does_Recycling_Affect_the_Environment. The author focuses on the products that are not biodegradable or are slow to hat a sweat decompose, such as the plastic, can remain in landfill sites for centuries, may emit that in e to fames with fr are in charges with this ENGLISH 120 Professor BE December Ahmed Ah Ahmed Ahmed 3 shuttered, the owner is no longer responsible for contamination, the public is” -5, 2018 Astron Stromberg, Joseph. "When Will We Hit Peak Garbage?", SMITHSONIAN.COM all caps? OCTOBER 30, 2013, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-will-we-hit-peak-garbage-7074398/. e This article focuses on the effects of growing garbage piling around the glob and its ENGLISH 120 Ahmed Ahmed effect on climate change worldwide. The amount of solid waste generated globally will double by the year 2025, increasing from 3.5 million tons to 6 million tons per day. Most countries in the world are mishandling the management of the solid garbage. This has relation with amount of our production such as millions of plastic fragments flooding the world's oceans and plenty of trash burned in incinerators generate air pollution or just dumped irresponsibly in the land,
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