Here is a silly but also interesting little made up story from a hundred years ago.
Read the whole story or just these little pieces.
“Why, I didn’t know you could talk!” he exclaimed. “If you knew how miserable I feel, you would not bother about that, but would take off my lid, said the garbage can...
“In the first place,” he began, “do you know that we American garbage cans are the hardest worked of all garbage cans in the world?”
“What some folks throw away makes me sick declared the garbage can confidentially. I could tell you some things, young man, that would certainly surprise you."
Few people stop to think how long it takes grains of wheat to grow into a loaf of bread. Did you ever think how hard somebody had to work to get the wheat grains ready to make the bread?” said the garbage can.
... "But, father, what do our garbage collectors do with the garbage? Where do they take it?”
So they went to the place where the garbage goes.....
"...the guide who took us through the plant laughed when I said so. ‘The men like that work,’ he said, ‘because they can have whatever they find. Sometimes they find silver spoons; sometimes things of more value. One man last year found a diamond ring which he sold for two hundred dollars.’ ”
Where do the moving belts take the garbage? ”
“...great vats where steam is driven through it, and the grease is melted down. The grease is sold for making oils and soap; the other part is made into fertilizer,” explained Robert.
“ I am glad to know about it, for I have never given the matter much thought, ” his mother said
Read the whole story from the 1918 book Our Town and Civic Duty
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