Above, one of three mounds at the Seneca Meadows Landfill in Waterloo, NY, as seen from the west side of Seneca Lake approximately eight miles away (through a telephoto lens). Credit: Kevin Colton, HWS.
This is the stairwell in my dorm. I was shocked on Monday morning when I walked downstairs on my way to class and discovered this. Not only is it completely inappropriate to shatter glass bottles to begin with but in such a traveled area makes it even worse. These bottles should have been recycled. We actually have a good system in place for recycling glass, so it is just a waste to shatter it and leave it on the floor to probably be thrown out. I'm hoping the person that cleaned it up recycled it.
This blog is a product of Geography of Garbage class (ENV 204), which I teach at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (www.hws.edu). The blog represents a collaborative effort among more than 30 students in the course in Spring 2011, and seeks to make visible (through photos and commentary) what we often prefer to be invisible: our garbage.
This is the stairwell in my dorm. I was shocked on Monday morning when I walked downstairs on my way to class and discovered this. Not only is it completely inappropriate to shatter glass bottles to begin with but in such a traveled area makes it even worse. These bottles should have been recycled. We actually have a good system in place for recycling glass, so it is just a waste to shatter it and leave it on the floor to probably be thrown out. I'm hoping the person that cleaned it up recycled it.
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