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Garbage as art

***** can this work on 'garbage as art' be used to raise environmental awareness?

***** who are opposed to the ********** movement often sniff that environmentalism is popular when it ***** directed *****wards saving a cuddly *****nimal species, a hospit*****ble neighborhood park, or the drinking water of children at a local, affluent school. Making hard sacrifices to save the environment f***** the next generation, even when they do not result in prettier scenery, can *****deed be more di*****ficult ***** sell to the public. Raising environmental aw*****ness is difficult—for some, even "recycling ***** a p*****in ***** ***** suffer," an inconvenience rather than a life-sustaining act of community. (Porter 146) And in fact, ***** offers little or no waste cost savings if not done properly by ***** governments—often it costs ***** than ***** saves, after the mechanisms of collection and incineration are put into action unless the program is implemented *****. Saving the environment takes work, ***** work, and making m********** in policies to achieve good policies—as one ********** often create a great many rough drafts before creating a final product of art.

Using garbage as art reminds us that ***** environment is often a harsh ***** an ugly place and the rewards cannot always be immediately appreciated, as waste ***** discarding things is part of life. We breathe and take from the environment, and give out in our breath what can be used by species from ***** plant kingdom. So long as there is renewal of ***** is c*****t *****f, we need not fear waste. Acknowledging the possibilities of garbage as art shows that neither art nor the natural environment are ***** beautiful, ***** even ***** more humble and earthier aspects of the natural world are equally valid and necessary to cultivate and preserve. Garbage as art ***** a tangible, immediate way to remind individuals ***** the ***** of renewal in the ***** and in ***** human condition, a ***** to recycle the environment and a w*****y for human beings to personally express their ideas ab***** their connections to the ***** *****. It is a way not subject to the whims or budgets of bureaucratic local ***** federal authorities.

***** as art *****s us that nothing, as stated by Richard C ***** in ***** poetic metaphor that structures h***** text, The Economics of Waste is truly lost in the world's ecosystem. "I am proud of the fact that ***** am 'recycl*****g' waste into economic knowledge and analytical **********." (Porter 6) The idea of garbage as art acknowledges ***** despite ***** false perceptions, ***** is truly 'new' in the world. The ***** of ***** world is an endless cyclical act ***** discarding ***** *****. The philosophical nature of art c***** show us that to refuse to recycle and to cling to the false idea that the shiny new tin wheels on our roller blades, that originates in the scrap metal of our recent ances*****rs, is new is a powerful *****e.

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