Trash-o-saurus

Oh no. The economic meltdown may kill trashosaurus, the one-ton star of Stratford, Connecticut’s Garbage Museum. In fact, the whole museum may tank. Currently, the educational institution runs on funding from a regional recycling consortium. But in these tough financial times, a half dozen local towns have pulled out of the consortium to send their recycling elsewhere and thus funding for the museum has been slashed.

No word on what this means for the Trash Museum in Hartford. Here’s to hoping trashosaurus finds alternate funding/an adoptive home. And here’s to the Constitution state. Kudos, Connecticut for having—for the moment at least—not one but two museums dedicated to trash.

P.S. Trashosaurus weighs one ton to represent the amount of trash created by the average American. This cracks me up. Photo via the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority.

Tags: dinosaur

This entry was posted on Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 11:22 am and is filed under Trash Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Trash-o-saurus”

LITTLE SHIVA Says:
Saturday, January 3, 2009 at 12:03 pm | Reply
Oh no, I love trashosaurus! But this story is related to the one I just posted about at http://www.visibletrash.net (reported by the Wall Street Journal) about the crash of the trash market. Yikes!!!
everydaytrash Says:
Saturday, January 3, 2009 at 1:21 pm | Reply
This is not the first trash crash story I’ve seen

https://everydaytrash.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/the-recession-will-not-be-recycled/

but it’s most definitely the first Tab bra I’ve come across. Thanks for the hot tip, Little! As always, you’ve got a finger to the pulse of trash art.
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Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 11:49 pm | Reply
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