Garbology

Under GARBOLOGY or Garbology (of English. , Garbage ' for waste ) is the science of waste and the archaeological study of garbage.

The science was developed in the 1970s in the desert city of Tucson in Arizona by Professor William Rathje. It is assumed that the material culture of a current population can be examined in the same form by archaeologists as the remnants of cultures that have lived thousands of years ago.

In the GARBOLOGY every piece of garbage is valuable because it says a lot about eating habits and waste disposal of the population. The finds bring very different results than surveys: example, it was found in a long-term study that respondents twice as many chips, bacon and sweets consumed as they admitted. While fruits and vegetables often unspent ended up in the trash, this almost never happened at fast food.

A waste project at the University of Ghent in Belgium proved when the citizens of briquette and coal were switched to other heating material. Was found in older layers of the remains from the coal-burning stoves, as they were absent in the layers from the 1960s. At the same time, the proportion of plastic waste rose rapidly.