Paul+Garbage!TheRevolutionStartsAtHome

__Title: __ Garbage! The revolution starts at home __Director: __ Andrew Nisker __Release year: __ 2008  ** // What is the central argument or narrative of the film? // **  The central argument of the film is the garbage. Michael’s family saved garbage for 3 months. The goal was to show people how much garbage a typical family could produce. The film also mentioned about the different recycling systems and points out some sustainability issues related with the garbage. Trillions plastic bags are used around the World. All the organic garbage goes to compost. All the other garbage goes to land filled. Therefore, the places close to the land filled have bad odor.  ** // What sustainability problems does the film draw out? // **  The film mentioned about air pollution, water pollution and deforestation. For producing electricity, coalmines are created and burning a lot of carbons. Man made earthquakes are created from the mine. Land filled corporation build a park few feet away from the land filled. PCBs from those landmines are also causing air pollution. The value of the houses are declining in those areas. Mountaintops are being removed because of coal mining. It causes deforestation. Trees are also cutting down for newspapers. Cars create problems like air pollution by Co2 and water pollution by road runoff. In many people, get unlimited water in flat rate, where many people do not have drinking water. Therefore, most of the people waste water. People pollute waste by washing dishes, cloths. Phosphate is bad for the fish. The fish starves for the oxygen when there is higher phosphate level. Plastic products like bags and bottle caps are also killing sea creatures. Household cleaning products make the indoors more harmful. Toxic ponds and coalmine are getting build close to the schools. Therefore, children are getting sick. Over packaging is a problem too. It creates a lot of garbage. Certain type of plastics could be recycled. Some plastic containers have laminations or have more layers so they cannot recycle. Glass recycles use in roads bed aggregate and paper recycle become paper slugs.  ** // What parts of the film did you find most persuasive and compelling? Why? // ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It was shocking to know that, one gallon of oil destroys 1 million gallons of drinking water. I also did not realize that people bodies contain many toxic chemicals and the modern bodies are taking longer to decomposed, because of the food preserved chemicals. I did not know the organic garbage could be composted. One interesting thing the film mentioned that, Canada exports its garbage to USA. It was surprising that Michael’s family 83 bags in three months. That means around 28 bags in a month and 7 garbage bags in a week. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ** // <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What parts of the film were you not compelled or convinced by? Why? // ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The title of the film is “Garbage! The revolution starts at home”. By reading the title, I thought the film would show a huge rebellion against garbage and would suggest a variety of solution to the individual level to solve the problem, but the film focused on showing how much garbage is produce by a family. One family is producing 83 bags of garbage in three months! I think this is little extreme. Probably that family made more garbage, or create more to show in the film. It was hard to believe, because we have average one big bag of garbage in one week. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ** // <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What audiences does the film best address? Why? // ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Every person should watch this film, because many people do not realize how much garbage each could produce. The film will definitely encourage kids to recycle materials. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ** // <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What could have been added to this film to enhance its environmental educational value? // ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The film could added more solution to this problem instead of just pointing out some facts. It could show more on landfill. It talked about the recycle of materials, but did not mention how effective is recycling. Therefore, the film could show what percent of recyclable materials are getting recycle, and how they could be reused. The film also did not mention about electrical waste. Therefore, they could have touch on that. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ** // <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What kinds of action and points of intervention are suggested by the film? If the film itself does not suggest corrective action, describe actions that you can imagine being effective. // ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The film suggested several solutions. It mentioned small projects of energy conservation, energy efficiency, and green powers are good. All the organic garbage goes to compost. Only certain types of plastics could be recycling. Therefore, the companies should make only those types of plastic that could be recycled. Glass recycles could be used in roads bed aggregate, paper recycle could become paper slugs. Cars recycle, goes to crushing process. People need to consume less instead of buying new thing often. Composting of organic garbage is not popular yet. In Albany, where I live, most people do not separate their organic garbage. Therefore, government should encourage the city people to separate their garbage, and take steps to make it happen. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **// <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What additional information has this film compelled you to seek out? //** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">I wanted to know more about the organic garbage composter. The decomposing process occurs naturally by the bacteria with the combination of air, water, nitrogen, and carbon. After the organic garbage decayed, the original matter is no longer recognizable and a rich, dark, soil-like substance remains. In New York State, thousands of tons of organic waste materials are composted each year. These include treated sewage sludge, otherwise known as biosolids, food waste residuals from industrial food processing facilities; food waste from recovery programs at hospitals, colleges, office buildings, and prisons; paper sludge; yard waste and other organic waste materials. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[]