We Have Alot of Garbage

It seems very foolhardy of us to think we can just throw things away and that's the end of it. That land for garbage is infinite. We cover up landfills but the garbage is still there. Things are built on top of landfills like apartment complexes and schools but again it's still under there. Garbage is in our oceans causing harm to sea life. People drive to and throw garbage in woods and parks. As we learned in school, matter is neither created or destroyed it just changes form. We need to change the form again of the garbage we have made back to a less destructive form. As a society we need to be serious about it. I was reading a book about food habits of families in different parts of the world. The family sat together with food for a week in front of them. The most obvious was the larger amount and the cost of food that some of the families ate as opposed to the sparse amount of others. One thing that was telling was the amount of packaging that industrial countries use. It was hard to compare visually because the packaging made it seem like a lot more food, taking up more space. As we know the box might be half full from "settling ". Or cans might keep the same size even though the amount in them has shrunk.