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Weekly Compactor

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

sofia.jpg In trash news this week:

  • A Native American chief in rural Utah is angry that nuclear waste WON’T be stored on his tribe’s land. Clearly he hasn’t been reading everyday trash;
  • Some asshole in Delaware throws away a dog, while Tampa finds its third dead baby of the year in a trash can at a Target;
  • Waste Management signs a deal with the Teamsters (not sure who the underdog is in this partnership);
  • Bulgarians unintentionally build a wall of trash (pictured above);
  • Israeli gas stations to get recycling bins (no promise on gas, though).
  • And, not to be outdone, Qatar installs a hazerdous waste treatment plant and sets environmental regulations to keep Gulf air clean. Or at least as clean as it is now.

Weekly Compactor

Wednesday, September 6, 2006

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This is a blog about trash.

Sunday, August 27, 2006

This is a blog about Oscar the Grouch. It’s about the smoke of burning trash piles wafting through every developing country in the world. It’s about the billions of dollars a year spent exporting garbage from one state to another. It’s about diving into a dumpster and coming up with a still-warm burger and three packets of mustard. It’s about detonating landmines with old truck tires and building bookshelves out of milk crates. It’s about barges. It’s about battery acid. It’s about paying sixty bucks for a change purse made of soda can tabs because the label says a women’s group in Latin America glued them together. It’s about sorting plastics. It’s about beaches built on landfills and landfills built on beaches. It’s about the “away” in throw away and the “out” in toss out and the “rid” in get rid of it. This is a blog about the art, money, power, politics, people and literature of garbage. It’s a subject that shocks and amuses me nearly every day, which is about how often I imagine I’ll be posting. I hope you’ll share in the fascination.