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This week in trash news:

• A Mexican dump is transformed into a community garden;
• A new study reveals London is one of the biggest trash dumping cities in the world;
• Is foam recycling worth the effort?;
• New Yorkers would recycle more if they understood to rules and had bigger apartments; and
• Filipinos asked by palace to help pick up after typhoons.

Cash for trash stories are all the rage when the economy tanks.

recycled felt ring by The Garbologist's Wife

This week in trash news:

• Freegans prefer Trader Joe’s;
• Etsy interviews The Garbologist’s Wife;
• Recycling Western coming of age novels by sending them to Africa doesn’t meet young African women’s need for books they can relate to;
• Composting requires pricey accessories; and
• Cruise ships still dump their trash in the ocean.

BBC News

This week in trash news:

• Western countries are still illegally dumping toxic electronic trash in Africa;

• Bill Gates invests more in trash hauling;
• Engineering students in Texas brush up on skills by recycling appliances; and
• Philly artists host a “pimp my recycle bin” event.

This week in trash news and around the garblogosphere:

• Some genius created a recycling poster (perhaps while listening to a little too much Ice Cube) (pictured);
• Even megacompany Waste Management felt the impact of our dying economy;
• Canada’s recycling industry faces the same hard times as the one in the states;
• The peanut recall turns food donations into trash; and
• Etsy gives a trashy tutorial in making envelopes from discarded paper.

Financial Times dress by Gary Harvey

It’s been a while since I’ve done a roundup.  Trash news has been exceptionally dry lately.  Luckily, there are blogs.  This week:

• Instructables features a soda bottle herb garden;
• Craftzine shows us how to make an ’09 planner out of trash;
• Green LA Girl features the trash photo blogs of NYC;
• Treehugger highlights Burt’s Bees dumpster diving savings; and
• Great Green Goods features some very cleaver inaugural ball gown designs (favorite example pictured above).

Hello from Essaouira, Morocco.  Sorry for the light, or rather absence of posting this week.   My sister and I decided rather last minute to spend the holiday weekend…plus a few extra days…with our Iranian father by meeting up half way between Tehran and Brooklyn.  I hope you are all having wonderful meals today with loved ones whether or not you celebrate American Thanksgiving.

Here are some other links to check out until I return home to more familiar keyboards and speedier Internet service on Sunday.

• Ruby Reusable has discovered a new garblog;
• Je me recycle has a photo of a temple made out of plastic bottles;
• Fake Plastic Fish tests out biobags; and
• The Visible Trash Society features a rad chair made from old bike tires.