Garbology
Analyzing Artifacts
Human beings are curious creatures. We experience interactions, form relationships, maintain habitats, and we always leave traces of things we need and like. One of the things that best mirrors a human's life is found in his or her waste, for instance, and just as a criminal investigator forages through a crime scene to develop hypotheses about a criminal's behavior, so can an individual forage through trash and find out a multitude of artifacts that can pinpoint an individual's habits quite specifically.
Yet garbage is not only important in its ability to say so much about a person and his or her life, but is also important because of the fact that garbage, if not properly sorted and categorized, and actually harm the environment. There are many landfills around the country, for instance, that have a great problem with environmental pollution, which mainly stems from unfiltered garbage.
Methodology
The following analysis aims to describe, categorize, and analyze various artifacts found in a family's trash. This is, then, a smaller scope of the above-presented problem, but it can be a start. The methodology for this study was to simply choose a trash can and inspect it in a sanitary way, regardless of the content believed to be in this can. The can is to be emptied completely, and the garbage placed in paper and plastic bags. One of the first things learned through this experiment was the importance of carefully categorizing artifacts, so as to organize them in a logical manner in order to make sense of the subsequent mess created. The system developed for this exercise was based on five categories. These included:
-Category 1: any type of food, whether human or otherwise (i.e. pet food);
-Category 2: types of packaging related to food and non-food items;
-Category 3: any paper products;
-Category 4: personal hygiene products for both sexes;
-Category 5: beauty products and other items not analyzed in Categories 1 through 5.
Categorization
The next section of this paper will describe some of the things found in each category through the table created below.
Category 1
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