Weekly Compactor

This week in trash news:

Sophia Loren pleas for Naples to resolve the trash conflict;
Pixar’s “Wall-E,” features a trash-compacting robot in love and generates lots of buzz;
Closing of landfills leads to longer trash hauls in the U.S.;
Popular Science muses on trash robots in space; and
Whitehaven, England, imposes steep fines for not sorting trash.

Pixar still via the LATimes

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3 Responses to “Weekly Compactor”

dumpstertaoist Says:
Monday, June 30, 2008 at 3:37 pm | Reply
On the NYT Trash in England article:

This is a huge step backwards, not only in the history of modern sanitation, but also for environmentalism. This is bound to backfire, and it’s nothing but a sham! Collecting taxes and fines in the name of the environment. Hey! Let’s be strict on the real culprits, since we have so much time to devote to trash issues. Let’s stop trash at the source and impose fines on manufacturers of products that aren’t environmentally sound! Not the poor consumers who have to deal with maggots now! Gross, even for me, the dumpster taoist.
everydaytrash Says:
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 5:52 pm | Reply
I know, trash suffers from such framing issues. We need some major trash PR to set the record straight: culprit = manufacturers and perpetrators of consumer culture.
dumpstertaoist Says:
Monday, July 7, 2008 at 4:04 pm | Reply
Thanks for replying Leila. Don’t know how many people read the comments here, but I like to vent a bit here in this little place, hope you don’t mind. And hey, this is rather ironic, doncha think? On the Wall-E story:

http://www.alternet.org/movies/89964/