Marginal Place

It is the storage room in our mod. There are 8 rooms in the mod and on top that there is the storage room. In fact, it is a giant trash bin. There are boxes, luggage and beds and mattress in there. Unlike the rest of the house the storage room is heated. The existence of storage room motivates people to order more items and leave the boxes in there.

I have seen storages off campus too. When moved to this county and the exitance of storage shocked me the most. In rural areas like Amherst there are big house and I believe there is no need for a storage. Apart from many rooms, people have garages too. But that doesn’t stop them from storing more items in the storages.

 

Boxes, coffee cups and plastic bags are object that I usually in the recycling bin. The standard cardboard box is made of paper from recycled boxes or the pulp of trees. The final paperboard consists of layers of pulp that have been treated, shaped, and pressed together.

The manufacture of cardboard boxes begins with heavy-duty papers created from tree pulp. The fibers from trees are put through a variety of treatments to produce the stable raw materials for making boxes.

 

According to wm.com currently, about 70 percent of cardboard-boxes shipped commercially are recovered for recycling.

Many of the boxes are themselves made of recycled materials or lumber industry byproducts like sawdust and wood chips.

When recycled, cardboard is used to make chipboard like cereal boxes, paperboard, paper towels, tissues and printing or writing paper. It’s also made into more corrugated cardboard.

Afghanistan isn’t Kabul. While so many things had changes in Kabul, the rest of the country still lives a life without technology or modern lifestyle.

In rural areas, people don’t have access to electricity, and they get water from the well. And each family has a well in front of their house.

In 2019 I went to Badakhshan province, people in the provincial capital had no idea about the U.S invisible. They are nomads.

Bathrooms usually locates on the third floor. There is one central heading that people use it to cook and keep hot water for tea and warm the house up during the winter. A Tandor is the main source of heat. It is installed in a room which called Tandor Khana. People burn wood, leaves some other items in it. When it is hot, we bake naan “bread” in it. Next morning the ash is taken out of Tandor and dumped into the bathroom. first it reduces the smell, second it is mixed with shit and people spread it on their farms instead of fertilizer. As we are a poor country and there isn’t enough money to buy all kinds of goods. Using shit for farming is a way of dealing with shit in a practical way. People believe using shit is efficient and it doesn’t burn the root of the plants and vegetables.

 

We are three people in an 8-bedroom mod. Each one of one has at least three reusable shopping bags. But every time we go to get groceries, we forget about the bags we already have. This negligence leaves us with no choice, but to get more paper bags. There is pile of paper bags at home. We always store them, but never use them. We have stored them under the stove in the kitchen. I don’t believe it is hoarding, because in the U.S., over 10 billion paper bags are consumed each year, according to some date. But if there is a fire in the house the bags will help the fire to increase. But If someone visits us they can argue that it is hoarding due to the amount of bags that exist in the house.

Yes, the existence of these items results the lack of cleaning. None is us remove them and clean that the area that the bags have occupied. The existence of these items has attracted so many spiders. And right now, beneath our stove is home to many spiders.

 

although the items in question were not rescued for a bin or a dumpster I am still considering them as something other’s considered waste that still had potential use.

Yesterday as I walked to the health center I decided to visit with the tree behind the red barn. the ground was littered with eucalyptus and baby’s breath from a wedding that had been held there the day before. I was amazed at how the party could just leave something so valuable behind. of course it was organic material so leaving it on the ground once you’re done is not the same as leaving some other type of non organic trash. but in my mind these plants are not trash, they can be used practically and as decoration. I know the value of both monetarily and baby’s breath especially is not cheap, especially when paying for wedding flowers. I collected as much as I could of both, and even with the help of a friend was not able to gather everything. I walked back to Dakin with my arms full and my face nearly covered. I separated the eucalyptus from the baby’s breath and made them into individual bunches. I know I can dry and preserve both, I can give dried the flowers and leaves as gifts and I can hang them in my room for the pleasant visual of dried plants in my room and also for the scent the eucalyptus will leave in my room. I also placed bunches of the dried eucalyptus in my shower, it makes the shower smell nice when the steam lets out the scent and is also beneficial for opening up your sinuses.

Maybe the party did know the uses of what they were leaving behind but not have a plan for them once the ceremony ended. clearly they did not value their usefulness enough to deem them worthy of saving, I am glad they did not make an effort to dispose of them otherwise because then I wouldn’t have had access to such a wonderful resource for free. mayb they just didn’t want them or maybe they did in fact think of them as garbage now that the events they’d planned had ended. in this situation I am more than happy to clean up after them because I know that I am benefiting while putting their wastefulness to use.

 

 

We regularly interact with disposable paper, and paper waste is a severe problem in many industries and offices because of printing mistakes, junk mail, billings, and packaging, paper may comprise a company’s total waste. An average office employee would be using about 10,000 sheets of paper in a year. In addition to paper used for printing, companies also consume other paper products, such as cardboard, envelopes, and wrappers, to name a few. From torn paper to used wrappers, it is no wonder that a third of all litter is paper products. Littering can make an area entirely unattractive for tourists and business owners. Furthermore, they attract insects and rodents, turning an area into a perfect breeding ground for various diseases. People trading industrial wood in the world reserved for pulp and paper industries, which produce office paper, tissue, and paper-based packaging. 

Environmental Effects of Paper Waste

Deforestation is the primary effect of our mindless use of paper. Conservation groups have made admirable headway in protecting ecologically rich forests and limiting commercial access. This is a great progress for mankind! Just imagine how long a tree will grow to its full size…. We are only just realizing the wasted use of our trees – trees that give off oxygen and protect the planet from further Global Warming. Deforestation is detrimental to the ecosystem as loss of habitat can lead to flora and fauna extinction. While many industries have committed to reforestation projects, these artificial forests are often unsustainable and unable to support biodiversity.

Easy Ways to Reduce Paper Waste and Pollution

1. Recycle all your paper waste
2. Reduce the use of paper cups and disposable paper plates by keeping reusable items in the office pantry.
3. Encourage your officemates and friends to recycle their papers by putting them in recycling bins.
4. In the office, reuse paper. If you’ve only used one side, for example, collect them instead of throwing them away. You can bind these sheets and make a notebook using the other side. This small effort reduces paper waste.

 

At the bottom of my drawers, there is an old hoodie that sits, folded and clean. Every morning my hand passes over it as I choose something else. A part of my brain considers it waste, it seems wrong, it seems out of place. It’s a perfectly fine hoodie, comfortable with no damage, but my mind itself has created this barrier to consider it as waste, my brain calls it a “matter out of place,” but I can’t bring myself to throw it away or even donate it. I think my brain likes having this waste in my room, and if I throw it out, I’ll just create another mental barrier for another piece of clothing, and that will become waste.

Three people, 8 bedrooms, two bathrooms and a weird looking living room. This is the space that I share with two other people. Meanwhile there are “MECH ROOM” and a “storage room”. My roommates and I dump our trash in there. Most of the items in the storage room has no use. There are a few boxes and our luggage which occupy the room.

 

5 rooms out have 8 are locked and no one lives there. It is a total waste. The windows are small. There was enough space for bigger windows to put, but architects have put small and narrow windows. If the windows were bigger, more sun could hit the room. It is good for the winter and lesser heat would be needed. Or sometimes. The walls are useless. It is a waste.

 

There are rooms for 6 people upstairs and one toilet. Having one toilet for six rooms is unsanitary. A room would have been used for installing another toilet.

 

There is a coach in the living room that none of us uses it. And the living for is almost useless. There are two front doors. And I genially don’t know why there are two doors.

 

There are six windows in the living room, only a few inches apart from each other. it could have been only bigger window, not so many. These windows are a total waste of money.

“Waste is matter out of place” – Mary Douglas. Matter out of place is a rather broad definition, as such anything can become waste. When you look outside of hampshire, in yards and lawns, there is no leaves on the ground. They have all been raked up to make the area look pretty. So for most people, leaves are waste. However, this is not what nature believes, in fact the fallen leaves help the grass survive and grow again in the winter. The entire ecosystem is built around this “waste,” and in our attempts to “clean”, we harm natural system built millions of years ago.