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Transfer Station
On a brisk Saturday morning of January 10th, 2018, Alan's A block APES class took a bus over to the Waste Transfer Station of Andover, New Hampshire. After getting off the bus and being welcomed by a cold breeze we began our journey around the transfer site. Immediately stepping out of the vehicle, we are greeted with the sign below... (photo by A.J. Fox) This sign indicates that the people of Andover pay taxes to have this transfer site, so if you don't have a sticker than you can NOT dump at this site. The first place we stropped at was the general waste compacter picutred below... (picture by A.J. Fox) Alan told us these containers are compacted and then weighed before being shipped of to an incinerator. This is an unfortunate part of waste management since it is the cheapest way for residents to dispose of their trash becaus ethey don't have to pay extra for recycling and reuse recycling. They simply just through all their trash into this machine and head off. ...
Ted Talk
William McDonough states: “ The fundamental issue is that, for me, design is the first signal of human intentions. ” Do you share McDonough’s viewpoint? Explain and use an example of a design that supports your position. I agree with William’s viewpoint on design and his example that he uses of the rubber duck. It is so true that we are designing things that are known to cause cancer in the state of california yet we sell and distribute it with the intentions for it to be used by young children. That is a very interesting cultural design, and one that is certainly not proper. 2) McDonough states: what we realize today is that modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, "Well, I didn't intend to cause global warming on the way here," and we say, "That's not part of my plan," then we realize it's part of our de facto plan. Because it's the thing that's happening because we have ...