[Jasper]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

For more on the garbage collection questions, see this 2006 article:
If Everyone Awakens Will We All Starve?

A site/short little flash movie I like about garbage collection (and creation) is this: The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard

You need to have about 20 minutes available to be able to see the entire thing, but it's really worth the time.