For me the biggest thing that shattered my worldview was seeing how many people don’t even think about this. It never crosses their mind how the things they use will persist, once it’s out of their hand it’s out of mind.
Every piece of plastic, every coffee cup, garbage bags, I think about where it will go. How it’ll sit there for hundreds of years just so I could have a cup of coffee, or so it could hold trash, or be packing material.
I can’t fix it myself, but just be aware of it people, just think about where it goes. How long it will be there.
For cups now I take my own. Garbage bags I use the compostable ones. Just have to think about it a bit more.
Humans have always been this way. There’s a hill in Rome that’s basically a 2000 years old garbage dump (Monte Testaccio). The Romans even had the ability to recycle their amphoras… but not those ones.
There are lots of archaeological evidence of similar native American trash piles, with broken pots, bone combs, etc. Similar stuff other poster was talking about.
You’re romanticizing.
The amount of garbage produced per person has absolutely skyrocketed, but that’s due to several other, partly cultural, factors.
With the limited research I just did on my phone, I didn’t see all this abundant evidence of trash piles.
I did learn about Middens, which were sort of trash piles. But they were mostly filled with shells, animal bones, and excrement, which seems more like a compost heap than a landfill.
Also, they were made predominantly by a few nomadic tribes. There are even other animals that make these “middens” like squirrels and octopi.
If you consider broken pottery and broken combs as garbage, then sure, it’s a landfill. I can also say that the broken pottery is just a pile of dried clay pieces that were put back on the ground.
Bones, rocks, and other organic matter put on the ground hardly makes a place a landfill. Otherwise every cemetery, quarry, or a pile of pretty much anything is considered a landfill.
For me the biggest thing that shattered my worldview was seeing how many people don’t even think about this. It never crosses their mind how the things they use will persist, once it’s out of their hand it’s out of mind.
Every piece of plastic, every coffee cup, garbage bags, I think about where it will go. How it’ll sit there for hundreds of years just so I could have a cup of coffee, or so it could hold trash, or be packing material.
I can’t fix it myself, but just be aware of it people, just think about where it goes. How long it will be there.
For cups now I take my own. Garbage bags I use the compostable ones. Just have to think about it a bit more.
Humans have always been this way. There’s a hill in Rome that’s basically a 2000 years old garbage dump (Monte Testaccio). The Romans even had the ability to recycle their amphoras… but not those ones.
People haven’t always been that way… but massive, imperialist governments always have.
Just look at the Native American population pre-USA. They learned to coexist with nature and let basically nothing go to waste.
There are lots of archaeological evidence of similar native American trash piles, with broken pots, bone combs, etc. Similar stuff other poster was talking about.
You’re romanticizing.
The amount of garbage produced per person has absolutely skyrocketed, but that’s due to several other, partly cultural, factors.
With the limited research I just did on my phone, I didn’t see all this abundant evidence of trash piles.
I did learn about Middens, which were sort of trash piles. But they were mostly filled with shells, animal bones, and excrement, which seems more like a compost heap than a landfill.
Also, they were made predominantly by a few nomadic tribes. There are even other animals that make these “middens” like squirrels and octopi.
If you consider broken pottery and broken combs as garbage, then sure, it’s a landfill. I can also say that the broken pottery is just a pile of dried clay pieces that were put back on the ground.
Bones, rocks, and other organic matter put on the ground hardly makes a place a landfill. Otherwise every cemetery, quarry, or a pile of pretty much anything is considered a landfill.
Ok
So THATS why they built effigy mounds everywhere! They were just responsibly burying their waste!