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Film: Wasteland
Explores Brazilian artist Vik Munizs project with the workers of Jardim Gramacho, Rio de Janeiros largest landfill
Source: http://www.wastelandmovie.com
Source: http://www.wastelandmovie.com
Source: http://www.wastelandmovie.com
Source: http://www.wastelandmovie.com
Source: http://www.wastelandmovie.com
Source: http://www.wastelandmovie.com
Critical Questions
How do we define trash? Is the definition of trash dependent upon culture? How can we think about re-defining what is valuable? How does out of sight, out of mind play a role in the way in which we view trash in every day life?
Book: Garbology
Edward Humes, 2012
Explores the role of trash in America, and the link between the economy and
How is trash intimately linked to the economy? Market failure vs. moral failure?
It turns out our contemporary economy, not to mention the current incarnation of the American Dream, is inextricably linked to an endless, accelerating accumulation of trash.
The purchases that drive the markets, the products that prove the dream, all come packaged in instant trash (the boxes, wrappers, bags, ties, bottles, caps and plastic bubbles that contain products).
And biggest system flaw of all [...] is the disposable,wasteful mindset that creates the flow of trash in the first place. Rather than a problem specific to landfills or other santitation strategies, this is a flaw in how manufacturers create and consumers use disposable products.
Plastic has gone so fast from zero to omnipresent that its slipped beneath conscious perception.
plastic & the oceans rise of the plastic bag polyethylene & fossil fuels
Outside Critiques
Argument relies partly on environmental sensationalism
Proposed European precedents may not apply to the US waste system Rich in social history, but lacking in supporting sources