Reading Response #2
Ashante K. Charles
Professor: Juanli Carrion
Thursday, February 7th, 2019
Sustainable Systems
READING RESPONSE: The Compost King of New York by Elizabeth Royte
Vigliotti’s vision to generate food waste into energy is a sustainable plan by seizing areas with large scales of leftover produce. With his ambition to seek “…food composting as a business opportunity, ” taking advantage of the compost facilities that have been established in New York, to transform into a well-profited industry creates invariable consequences, as much as we attempt to benefit our ever-evolving environment.
While this business would grow inevitably, the use of machinery is likely to increase in such circumstances in order to maintain and utilize the organic waste implemented and transported. In the process of composting the waste can be compromised from contamination, depending on where the compost is supplied. which is to be avoided by advising homeowners to be cautious of the materials they throw in with their food waste. Another disadvantage is the odor escaping the compost site, that may affect the health of families in nearby neighborhoods.
It’s difficult to avoid a wicked problem even if a solution is seen as sustainable for the environment. As consumerism is the lead to pollution through wealthy buyers and investors, even as those with big pockets and ideas are displayed beneath our noses, it is easy for a system to corrupt when money is involved, making the environment less benefited from a system that has the purpose to create a positive change, in the example of Vigliotti’s actions.
