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Modern consumer culture has led to the creation of a lot of unwanted waste. As a cause of our current societal trends, corporations come up with products that lure the consumer into surrendering. IPods, Laptops, Cell phones, and even clothing all have an expiary date. Not in the sense that they will “rot” but rather their durability is narrow and people's interest are in constant motion. The new iPhone will take over the old one and so on..=====

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Following the industrial revolution society has grown to care more about money convenience and less about the outcomes of the new pendemic. People become more lazy to recognize anything other than the dollar; thereby conforming to the metropolis capitalist life. it garbage or the growing gap between the rich and the poor; it is evident that our growing capitalistic nature has blinded us to disregard issues such as **t****rash**.=====

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This act of collecting what is wasted can be seen as gleaning or rag picking. Often, we see these people as hobos, or people that choose to live off the garbage of others. But the fact that we view this act as bad is indeed the problem. We have to be more conscious in the way we use things and appreciate the goods we have instead of taking them for granted. Instead of using technology and innovation to make good, we are producing access “**junk**”.=====

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In Agnes Varda's documentary (//The Gleaners and I)// the rag pickers and gleaners are looked at as human recyclers, in which they reuse our "stuff" and make use to it. We are know dividuals that waste garbage, that then become a strand in the vast field of consumption.=====

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Instead of encouraging other wise, advertising and the media lures the producer to purchase useless items. We idolize commodities and make them our fetish; with hopes of making us perfect. The hidden life of these commodities lies in their production, as they all end in the doomed life of a landfill.=====

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In the documentary, "//The Hidden Life of Garbage//", we see how efficient and caring people (pre industrial revolution) were in relation to reusing and recycling. Coca cola was served in reusable glass bottles instead of scarp plastic cans.=====