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
Tags: wartime rubbish, Waste Management
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