Ch.8

In this chapter Humes explains the ideas and accomplishments that Bill Rathje made on his life time goal. Well Rathje is the world's first garbologist and had the idea of the Garbage Project. Rathje explain that the Garbage Project is a group of students who do deep analysis of modern waste and do research  with each community's trash. It's surprising that by analyzing people's trash the Garbage Project can predict their behavior. It's weird how the Garbage Project also develop a formula from trash to calculate the relative income and demographics. I also like how they discover the type consumption of different alcohol in each areas which are low-income, middle-income, and upper-income. Although as I read not a lot of people knew about Bill Rathje until Sheli Smith expand his ideas and successfully became viral. But Rathje ideas made it possible and as Smith said " It give us hope for the future."