everydaytrash

Hello from Essaouira, Morocco.  Sorry for the light, or rather absence of posting this week.   My sister and I decided rather last minute to spend the holiday weekend…plus a few extra days…with our Iranian father by meeting up half way between Tehran and Brooklyn.  I hope you are all having wonderful meals today with loved ones whether or not you celebrate American Thanksgiving.

Here are some other links to check out until I return home to more familiar keyboards and speedier Internet service on Sunday.

• Ruby Reusable has discovered a new garblog;
• Je me recycle has a photo of a temple made out of plastic bottles;
• Fake Plastic Fish tests out biobags; and
• The Visible Trash Society features a rad chair made from old bike tires.

  This week in trash news:

• An illegal dumping ground in a South African township is reborn as a park;
• The Pacific Ocean is home to a massive bowl of ‘garbage soup’;
• Rachel Ray markets garbage; and
• A pair of Pennsylvania colleges compete to reduce waste.

This week in trash news:

• The trash crisis in Naples heats up;
• Utah trash collectors double as neighborhood watch;
• A homeless man in Prague lands a city job for finding a baby in the trash; and
• The Trafalgar Square Christmas tree gets recycled.

Photo via the AP

  This week in trash news:

• Connecticut trashdaddy convicted of  racketeering;
• The government of Uganda and the World Bank invest in manure;
• Uncollected trash threatens health in Barisal, Pakistan;
• Fox News discovers the potential of trash to create energy;
• Scientitsts zap trash into small pellets and fuel (pictured).

Photo via Marketplace. 

This week in trash news:

• Inuit get pissed at the Navy;
• RecycleBank pays people to recycle;
• Uganda considers a hotel trash tax ; and
• Greenland’s landfill (pictured) awaits it’s first dump.

I’ve been a trash slacker, I know. Here are some tidbits, meatier posts coming soon, I promise! This week (or thereabouts) in trash news:

• It looks like that trash reality show was finally taped (holding breath for DVD release);
• A scrap art show comes to NYC;
• Coke launches an ambitious recycling campaign;
• Brits support a tax rebate for recycling; and
• The kitchen trash can is taken to the next level (pictured).

Photo via teensygreen.com.  Thanks to Bernardo for two of these links, my mom for one and Kimberly for another (this blog has become self-sufficient)!