In trash news this week:
- China’s king of rooting through the rubbish donates the money he salvaged to little kids and old people.
- A worker separating trash in California spots a woman’s body coming down the conveyor belt.
- Indian officials say UNESCO, schmooESCO, a world heritage site is the perfect place for a new dump. Also in India, Garbage truck drivers will get their very own cell phones, just as soon as the health department can find a cell phone company not about to collapse.
- And in home-town news, NYC says goodbye to a hero of the sanitation department who last year saved a girl from a burning building and this year got caught in the senseless crossfire of an afternoon in Brooklyn.
everydaytrash 
Wednesday, September 6, 2006 at 5:23 pm |
1. i am going to know WAY to much about trash from hereon out.
2. but i love the idea of a weekly compactor!
3. i know its my morbidly curious side, but you need a death & trash category
4. what does it say that police in Sunnyvale assume every dead body spells murder until proven otherwise? Maybe that’s just a precaution to make sure all shady circumstances get checked out, but it seems a tad sad to me.
5. i was reading notes from Sig Gissler’s beat note pep talk to the newbies at the school. he said: always talk to sanitation workers – no one ever interviews them and they see EVERYTHING in the nabe. Wish I’d thought of that.
6. I will now maintain radio silence for a while as I’ve reached my weekly limit for comments.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 2:58 am |
[…] Last week, my friend Kimberly suggested I add a category to everyday trash that would cover those killed by trash or in trash related incidents. My hesitation isn’t that I think the material is lacking, on the contrary it’s everywhere, but rather a fear of trivializing the seriousness of death by trash. As Kimberly pointed out to me today, it’s no picnic to live in the away to which other people throw their unwanted things. Posted by everydaytrash Filed in trash politics […]