Garbage is a highly visible problem that many choose to try and make invisible. It is a visible problem that you can see from space. A visible problem that you can see every Wednesday morning before the garbage truck comes and picks it up. A visible problem that you can see when you walk down the side walk and see McDonalds’ cups with the striped straws in the bushes and the Wendy’s napkins in the street that a child threw out their window. It is a visible problem almost everywhere. Many see it and turn their head or get rid of it in the garbage can and then it is gone. But really, what is next? No one wants to face the down side of garbage because it has that awful name of “garbage”. The bad thing is, garbage is becoming a problem throughout our world and so many just turn their heads and ignore it. Why is that?
I feel we try to make it invisible so we don’t have to face the fact of how much we really waste. No one wants to be known as the one who throws out the banana because it has a brown spot or the waster who drops the bread on the ground and now has to donate it to the garbage can because it is “dirty”. So many people waste all the time and don’t even think twice about it.
The article states “we seem to make the illusion that everything is clean and free and humming along with any kind of hidden cost. And that’s not true.” So, once the garbage is gone from our house or out of our car or not in our garbage can, then everything is clean and fine but that’s just not true. Soon we will be over flowing with garbage; our houses will have to be built on garbage. Our world has a large problem on its hands and it should be made visible!
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