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Tim Pritchard was a Seattle resident with no special connection to garbage until he began to volunteer with MIT’s Trash Track, a program that tracked trash by using GPS technology taken from recycled cell phones. Pritchard became a valuable part of the team due to his knowledge of Seattle’s different neighborhoods, which helped the MIT team find interesting garbage to track. Pritchard represents how the U.S. garbage crisis has been made worse by people’s ignorance of where trash goes (which often allows them to ignore the problem). He also represents how normal people can get involved with solving the trash crisis, showing how even seemingly ordinary people can make surprising contributions.
Tim Pritchard Quotes in Garbology
The Garbology quotes below are all either spoken by Tim Pritchard or refer to Tim Pritchard. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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At fifty years old, Pritchard was a natural for Trash Track. He’d been working to green himself for years, knocking his personal trash footprint way below the 102-ton legacy. He pegs his trash output at a single paper grocery bagful a month, recyclables included, though he qualifies this achievement by saying he’s single and travels often for work, which cuts down his trips to the home trash can and recycling bin.
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Tim Pritchard Quotes in Garbology
The Garbology quotes below are all either spoken by Tim Pritchard or refer to Tim Pritchard. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 7
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At fifty years old, Pritchard was a natural for Trash Track. He’d been working to green himself for years, knocking his personal trash footprint way below the 102-ton legacy. He pegs his trash output at a single paper grocery bagful a month, recyclables included, though he qualifies this achievement by saying he’s single and travels often for work, which cuts down his trips to the home trash can and recycling bin.
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