Author
What is the author's name?
Heather Rogers, she has brown hair
What is waste disposal?
When you throw something away and it is put somewhere else
What does Lavish mean?
Rich, elaborate, or luxurious
What is the title of the story?
The Hidden Life of Garbage?
How many slides did our presentation have?
Five
When was the author born?
April 27, 1974
Where was garbage originally piled in the 1800's?
In ditches, rivers, streets or other random places
Able to be touched or felt
What does WMI stand for?
Waste Management Inc.
What is Josh's preferred method of writing?
Cursive
Where was the author born?
Springfield, Illinois
What happened when they tried to burn the garbage in the 1800's?
It created a dense black smoke
What does repressed mean?
Restrained, inhibited, or oppressed
How big did the author describe the landfills to be?
She described them having the disposal capacity of one thousand football fields and the height of the Washington Monument
44 years old
Where can you find her works?
The New York Times Magazine, the Utne Reader, and the Architecture
When was the first sanitary landfill made?
What does sequestered mean?
Isolated and hidden away
How much liquid waste leeches off the landfills daily?
An average of 100,000 gallons
How many paragraphs did the story have?
Thirteen
What was her solution to fixing garbage disposal in the story?
She did not provide one
What percentage of waste goes to sanitary landfills today?
Today, more than 60% of the trash that we dispose of goes to these landfills.
What does putrescence mean?
The condition of being putrid; decay
What does GROWS stand for?
Geological Reclamation Operations and Waste Systems
What color is the author's hair?
Brown, brunette, dark brown, umber, mushroom brown, bay, or chestnut