Chapter 4

     I found this chapter interesting. This chapters main idea was about the history of the landfills. Humes introduces us with the background of the landfills. He shows the ideas that people had during the beginning of the landfill era had. Later on inthis chapter he talks about Waste Management Inc, the hottest investment prospect in the country. Building new power plants was the idea that the American government came up with. Why not burn our trash and produce clean energy that way our trash becomes useful? However, we weren't about to do that. Many people believed that building power plants would create more pollution. Puente Hills is where all the trash is taken and where it gets stacked into a pile of trash to create a mountain of trash. The idea of the power plants was for the use of clean energy by using our own trash. However, San Gabriel Valley, didn't like the idea of this new solution. They believed that the power plants would make there land less appealing to people in the neighborhood because the beautiful mountains would be blocked because of the power plants. They rejected this new solution and now they are stuck with the same old tradition of building a trash mountain. I really did enjoy this chapter. It made me think and question why people don't do things that are reasonable?