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Friday, August 10, 2007

This week in trash news:

The Brooklyn Papers spread the word about everydaytrash;
Orillia, Canada considers garbage tags in a pay-as-you-throw plan;
A Japanese man is knifed over a neighborhood trash dispute; and
Uganda will start composting trash and selling it to farmers for fertilizer to increase government coffers.

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Thursday, August 2, 2007

This week in trash news:

The EPA announced that federal prisons in five states will undergo environmental audits;
A trash strike in Vancouver entices Canada’s rat population;
A settlement outside Cape Town, South Africa, gets some much needed media attention for its trash woes; and
A rubbish collector in Malasia is fined for not taking out the trash (pictured).

Photo via The Star

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Saturday, July 21, 2007

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

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

This week in trash news:

The U.S. government warns Americans of trash-related health risks in Naples;
Italians in nearby Mercato San Severino try to clean up their act;
A San Fran resident and a local columnist hash out the best ways to dispose of organic waste;
Bears prefer garbage to bait; and
Brits rescue a pony from a rubbish dump.

Photo via the USDA Forest Service

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Weekly Compactor: Blogroll Edition

Friday, July 6, 2007

I took an unannounced vacation this week. Please excuse the inconsistency. You’ll be happy to know that ton of rich garblogging carried on in my absensce. In particular, check out these two links:

1. Carrying around your trash for two weeks is a growing trend in New York City. The practice makes both you and others aware of how much waste each of us produces, and adds incentive to make less. Check out this Trash Talk blog from frog design where Debra Keneally is logging her experiences toting trash and where she has amassed an impressive collection of links to allies and others doing the same thing. Note: This is not the last you’ll hear of this genius fad around these parts, just the last you’ll hear of them before the weekend.

2. Keith over at the Temas blog covered two trash-related stories this past week. First, he investigates a new Mexican disposable diaper claiming to be “environmentally friendly”. Next he updates us on another PET recycling project, this one backed by the government of Brazil in an attempt to construct solar water heaters from trash.

Photo via The Temas Blog

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Friday, June 22, 2007

This week in trash news:

Treehugger reports on reduce-your-trash contest for kids in Boston;
The New York Times discovers freeganism;
Europeans won’t recycle their old cell phones;
Nobody cares about trash in San Diego;
A brit boycots recycling;
Honolulu contemplates getting into the trash export biz (more fascinating, perhaps, is the use of large words in this paper’s headlines. Ignominious?!).

Photo via NYT

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Saturday, June 16, 2007

This week in trash news:

As the Italitan trash crisis continues, Neopolitans force the city to reopen an old dump;
Garbage remains a multi-million dollar cash import in Virginia;
The Supreme Court reaffirms that trash is NOT private (I mentioned this earlier, but it bears repeating);
A dispute between Belize City local officials and their trash hauler leads to smelliness;
Plastic generated by tourists plagues a river in India, despite the best efforts of the government of Norway to step in and solve the problem Viking style;
Cynthia Rowley envisions designer garbage bags and for some reason CNN thinks this is news (yeah, I know, I’m a hypocrite for reposting but I’ll bog anything that allows me to diversify the photos around here….I’m sick of trash piles).