Robin Nagle starts off her discussion with a personal experience a while back. She explains when she saw a dump behind her campsite and remembers how she felt feelings of confusion. She thought of how people don't clean after themselves and just leave trash laying around. Which then led her to the question, "Who cleans up after us?", and with that she started a research project to find out. But even with that, she still didn't find the answer she needed. So Robin became a sanitation worker and implanted herself in the situation. She talks about how the smell isn't as bad and how she learned about all the dangers/hardships that many people don't know about or take for granted. She also meets someone while working as a sanitation worker that she had met on the day on 9/11 and became really good friends with him. Robin suggests that the flow of our lives only happen because of sanitation workers doing their jobs and without them the environment around us will be filled with trash.
In Robin's TED Talk, she has taught me other points of views of sanitation workers, or in our case trash and recycle workers in Florida. I would always think of them as people just picking up our trash twice a week. When watching this video, I learned that the people picking up our trash has been helping us live our lives. When I was in New York City last summer, I remember seeing bags of trash on the side of the road. I did not think much of it because I knew that they would be picked up by sanitation workers that day. But now when I look back at it I remember that sometimes workers would be picking up trash until the late evening. This video sends out the message that we should all appreciate the things sanitation workers do because without them we would have trash bags laying around on the side of the road with no one to pick them up. If nobody picked up those trash bags, we would have an unclean environment for our everyday lives.
Robin's discussion has inspired me about the things sanitation workers have done for us. Cleaning after ourselves so we can live life everyday clean. Robin said at the end of the TED Talk that we should start acknowledging and saying thank you to sanitation workers when we have a chance and to think of it, it might actually be a good idea.
In Robin's TED Talk, she has taught me other points of views of sanitation workers, or in our case trash and recycle workers in Florida. I would always think of them as people just picking up our trash twice a week. When watching this video, I learned that the people picking up our trash has been helping us live our lives. When I was in New York City last summer, I remember seeing bags of trash on the side of the road. I did not think much of it because I knew that they would be picked up by sanitation workers that day. But now when I look back at it I remember that sometimes workers would be picking up trash until the late evening. This video sends out the message that we should all appreciate the things sanitation workers do because without them we would have trash bags laying around on the side of the road with no one to pick them up. If nobody picked up those trash bags, we would have an unclean environment for our everyday lives.
Robin's discussion has inspired me about the things sanitation workers have done for us. Cleaning after ourselves so we can live life everyday clean. Robin said at the end of the TED Talk that we should start acknowledging and saying thank you to sanitation workers when we have a chance and to think of it, it might actually be a good idea.