Every year, our planet produces 2.12 billion tons of garbage. Is it any wonder that there is a garbage pokemon?
Garbodor is literally a sentient pile of trash, but we we’ll save the details of how a pile of garbage gains consciousness for its pre-evolution’s entry. Today, on Earth Day, we are going to talk about why garbage stinks.
Garbodor’s pokédex entry tells us that it consumes more garbage to produce poisonous gases and liquids. While “poisonous” is fairly vague, the smelliest most common gases in garbage are nitrogen and sulfur. Other toxic gases include carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, chlorine, and ammonia.
So Garbodor produces these gases from garbage; but how? Think of the smelliest garbage. You’re probably thinking of things like eggs, fish, meat. These are all foods that are high in protein, and that give us our answer. As protein is broken down, it produces both nitrogen and sulfur.
Garbage is broken down primarily through microbes like bacteria, who consume the trash and break down the molecules into smaller ones. They will rot meat, liquify vegetables, and who knows what else.
Garbodor then acts like a giant microbe, consuming and absorbing the trash, performing all sorts of chemistry to stink and poison up the environment.
Garbodor breaks molecules in garbage into smaller ones like Nitrogen and Sulfur, producing smelly and poisonous gases.
So please, remember to recycle and be mindful of waste. As cool as the Pokémon world is, one thing I do not want to see is a 6 foot tall pile of garbage coming to eat us.
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