Ch.11

In Chapter 11, Humes starts off by describing a city that is green, zero emissions, allow bikes to cut in front of cars and ect. This city is at Portland Oregon who even has mayor Sam Adams, who is against waste. It's surprising how Humes mentions about the mayor in Portland would sing on a radio about bringing your own bag as a reminder for Portlanders to bring their reusable shopping bags. Humes catch my attention when he brought up about the test facility in Portland are studying a plasma gasification that can vaporize garbage completely without any trace of ashes. Humes also explain another city Denmark, that has a strategy to build trash burners that can generate power plants for homes that is connected with the plant by ground pipes. It's interesting how Humes said about Denmark's generating plants can help generate over fifty thousand homes for electric and 120,000 or more for heat. Hopefully America would wake up and build plants that can at least produce something for the community and especially ban plastic bags.