The Aftermath of Globalization: The Garbage Left Behind

Garbage is ultimately the useless waste of any product. The wrapper to your fast food burger or the tape that wrapped your Christmas present, both are things that are the leftovers, or the refusals of what was made to hopefully make certain aspects of live easier and more enjoyable. However, the concern comes into play when you consider where these refusals, or waste, go. After all it has to go somewhere, right? Nowadays, technology has advanced to where what was once the waste, can now be safely recycled through compost or even in general, being reprocessed to create something else, such as recycling paper to create other paper products. But what about those items that do not fit into the category of being recycled? What happens when consumers are through with the wrappers? In most cases, they end up in a landfill somewhere off the beaten path of society. In other instances, you can have radioactive waste, or even chemical wastes that appear in all countries fighting to become more than just a territory on a map. Here is where it links to globalization. In countries efforts to create one large global economy, so to say, there are steps in the chain that get skipped or get over looked. After all, how can you expect a barely surviving country to compete to any extent with the United States? The steps that seem to get over looked are those pertaining to the cleanliness of production and the by-products that are associated with producing these goods.
By focusing on this topic, it will be an important factor in fully understanding the production side of globalization. Rather than looking at the big picture and ignoring the details, it is important to see these details, because you can then create the big picture that you ultimately want to see. Thus, the garbage is a key example to a detail that has been overlooked, and by peering more into the depths of the garbage, we can hopefully find the key to making a progression towards globalization.

Inspiration behind the garbage blog:
The Story of Stuff