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This week in trash news:

• The Washington Post’s first person singular piece this week features a man who scoops trash out of the Patomic;
• Young garbage collectors risk life and limb in Baghdad;
• A clash between the Teamsters and Waste Management has San Francisco looking a lot like Naples;
• A new study from Greenpeace shows 6.5 million tons of trash floating in the Mediterranean;
• A couple in India discover a discarded grandmother at the local garbage dump;
• A city in California proposes restrictions on curbside trash scavenging;
• The BigBelly solar trash bin gets a little press in the UK; and
• Regional officials in Canada visit Europe to learn more about trash.

Photo by Walter P. Calahan via the Washington Post