everydaytrash

This week around the garblogosphere:

A plastic video made the rounds, prompting commentary from smarties like Beth of Fake Plastic Fish and Elizabeth Royte of the eponymous blog about “waste, water, whatever.”

• The HuffPo shared a review of Waste Land;
• Cool Hunting reviews “the bagster” aka dumpster in a bag;
• Ruby Re-Usable turns us on to Holly Senn;
• New York Shitty alerts us to a one-night-only (Sat) art happening involving trash bags; and
• Boing Boing discusses Seattle’s gum wall.

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).