Meet Dave, the Man Who Never Takes Out the Trash
Oct 30, 2008 Found Online
Meet David Chameides. David is a guy that cares about the environment. In fact, just to do his part, he doesn’t throw ANYTHING away. Instead, he keeps of of the trash he produces in his basement.
All of his non-recyclable trash — including organic waste like food — is stacked neatly in the basement of his Los Angeles house. He uses a tin box to hold bags of waste paper, and cans of garbage to hold the rest. For organic waste, he put in a worm composter that breaks down leftover food. Beyond that, he didn’t create a master plan for his year of no trash. “I didn’t really think this through — which is probably for the best,” says Chameides. His wife and kids are exempted from the challenge, but not from the neighbors’ scoffs. “My wife’s friends do make fun of me.”
Made fun of? No kidding!
The point that he wants to make is that even though we throw stuff in a trash can, it still ends up in a landfill somewhere. Doing this experiment (if that’s what you want to call it) has made him see just how little trash he actually produces. In fact, the article says that over the last 8 months, he has only produced about 30 pounds of trash.
I guess you have to live for something!
