Garbage In,Garbage Out
There are many ways of obtaining an understanding of peoples behaviour. One of these
is to study the objects discarded by a community}objects used in daily lives. The
study of the refuse of a society is the basis for the science of archaeology in which
the lives and behaviour of past societies are minutely examined. .Some recent studies
have indicated the degree to which rubbish is socially defined.
For several years the University of Arizona,, USA has been running a Garbage! Project,
in which garbage is collected, sorted out and noted. It began in 1973with an
arrangement whereby the City of Tucson collected for analysis garbage from randomly
selected households in designated census collection districts. Since then the
researchers have studied other cities both in the USA and Mexico, refining their
techniques and procedures in response to the challenges of validating and
understanding the often unexpected results they have obtained. Garbage is sorted
according to an extremely detailed schedule, a range of data for each item is recorded
on a standardised coding form, and the researchers cross-tabulate their findings
with information from census and other social surveys.
This Project arose out of courses designed to teach students at the University the
principles of archaeological methodology and to sensitise them to the complex and
frequently surprising links between cultural assumptions and physical realities.
Often a considerable discrepancy exists between what people say they do -or even
think they do -and what they actually do. In one Garbage Project study none of the
Hispanic women in the sample admitted to using as much as a single
serving of commercially-prepared baby food, clearly reflecting cultural
expectations about proper mothering. Yet garbage from the Hispanic households with
infants contained just as many baby food containers as garbage from non-Hispanic
households with infants.
The Project leaders then decided to look not only at what was thrown away, but what
happened to it after that. In many counties waste is disposed of in landfills, the
rubbish is compacted and buried in the ground. So in 1987,the Project expanded its
activities to include the excavation of landaus across the United States Y-and Canada.
Surprisingly, no-one had ever attempted such excavations before.
The researchers discovered that far from being sites of chemical and biologicalactivity,theinteriorsofwastelandfillsareratherinactive,with the
possible exception of those established in swamps. Newspapers buried 20or more years
previously usually remained perfectly legible, and a remarkable amount of food
wastes of similar age also remained intact.
While discarded household products such as paints, pesticides, cleaners and
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