Here is a final collection of all of the contact lenses I’ve worn and had containers for all semester. There are so many in the picture, they could not be lined up in frame, and there are multiple layers. This is probably just under 100 days, which would total to near 200 contact lens containers– […]
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In our fictional readings during the past week, it was very interesting to see these perceptions of what waste could be imagined to be like. In the Asimov reading, the Strikebreaker, a society had managed to completely reuse all waste by breaking it down fully and remaking something out of that. This society lived on
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Though the idea of a circular economy, an economy that generates a loop of regeneration and reuse of items, seems like an ideal economy, I don’t know how possible it is right now for us (even though I wish it was). One striking part of this idea is that we will eliminate majority of waste
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It has been one month since I decided to do monthly check-ins with contact lens waste in my course contract. In the first photo included below, it shows my collected plastic containers from February (since I was collecting these for recycling at my optometrist office, as they collect them for reuse/ recycling). The second photo
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A major issue with the recycling system is that most of the items recycled (with or without the special recycling arrow symbol) end up returned in the landfill or as other waste. Despite this, many people do not realize this and continue to recycle and assume that it is something that is actually environmentally beneficial.
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In many countries, businesses have used the idea of a “family business” for many reasons, though not all good. Though sometimes family businesses can be a good idea, especially in local businesses and name for actual family-owned businesses, many manipulate this label as familial in other ways. Many people and customers especially like the idea
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As we read in many of our readings last week we explored a new perspective of waste– as in items without typical value to us rather than just trash. One primary category we considered was wasteland, and how unused land or unoccupied land has been seen as waste in the past, or as wasteland. During
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Boston’s sewage problems are much older and complex than I had initially anticipated before these readings. One striking fact that I learned during these readings was the privatization of many of the sewer systems early on, which later on led to unknown sewage pipes and systems throughout the city. When the city began to attempt
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With the past week’s readings, I thought that it was a very interesting perspective to explore with waste workers. Though there were many differences between the workers in New York versus the pedal people, they share a similar role and job, where they are collecting waste and maintaining a clean community. Despite their differences in
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Though many of us hold ourselves to blame for the epidemic of trash waste that has been building up more and more over the years, it is not apparent that many aspects of this are not actually the individual’s fault. As plastic and other packaging materials have become cheaper and cheaper, making reusable options often
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