Spring Buck Speech

Spring Buck speech gave an overview of what Cornell, poses, recycles, and landfills (and reuse). I was really surprised by how many refrigerators are recycled (433 yearly), but made sense when Buck related it to the plethora of research labs on campus. However, how long are these refrigerator made to last? Are they cheaply made like our home refrigerators, which was stated in chapter 10 of Waste Makers. It that produces are more worried about sales than quality. For example, it also states that the American Institute of Electrical Engineers was in trouble for its mostly plastic (more breakable than metal) gadgets, because plastics have appealed to producers due to cost and their built-in colors help promote sales (p. 107). Today, this plethora …show more content…
This differs much from my first year at Cornell when most of my waste was disposed on campus since I lived in a dorm, which removed of all my waste. I did not have to pay for trash tags, which I still do not by bring my trash home to Binghamton biweekly. I feel convenience plays a big factor in this change because I could take something to Cornell now since I know where it goes after Cornell. However, I choose not to because I don’t want to be seen or deal with lugging trash around, which relates to the "feeling of luxury" (or rather not being seen as someone who needs to carry trash around to make money, such as waste service employee or a homeless person) (p. 184 of Waste and Want). Is it better for me to dispose of my waste through the campus? This requires more research of my own trash company; and even though Spring Buck may not be able to answer this question, Karen Brown helped a …show more content…
I believe my need to be clean increases my waste production, which relates to chapter 4 in Waste and Want because Strasser explains how of the use of disposal clean napkins is an example of advertisers persuading people to stop reuse; hens, all my lysol wipes. I hope to investigate in to my electric expenditure, since that bill comes to my mom. Furthermore, I to do the analysis in the journal and extrapolate the waste create by my use of energy. This is something I hope to measure in my next addition. I felt both speeches helped open my eyes about not what you throw away but whom you give your waste to process. Cornell clear thinks about this from Spring Buck’s presentation, as she said that they pick from a choice of vendors who are eco-friendly, unlike many schools (perhaps even my community college). Now, I want to investigate this, but I have to wait until my gap year when I plan to tutor