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.
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