everydaytrash

So, it’s been more than one year since I first set out to upload my fascinating collection of trashy factoids in the hopes of sharing them with others and meeting fellow trashies. And in my book, this calls for an Oscar-speech-style post as a nod to the many people who helped keep this small corner of the World Wide Web trash-filled and mildly entertaining for so many days!

First off, thanks to you, dear reader, tending to everydaytrash has surpassed all of my expectations. By starting this blog, I have discovered a world of creative solutions to waste and excess, an on-line community of green thinkers, an array of artists repurposing rubbish and a slew of novice trash reporters quick to forward me the latest in solid waste happenings. Thanks for the support and keep the trash tips coming!

Special thanks are due to tipster-in-chief Kimberly, logo-designer extraordinaire Ricardo and fellow highly-specialized blogger Emily. This first year also yielded not one, but two features about everydaytrash on BlueEgg and in the Brooklyn Papers. Thanks to Jenn and Dana for making those happen.

Here’s a brief overview of (what I believe to be) the best of everdaytrash to date:

• Literary Trash, a week of Q & A’s with trash authors;
• Trashtastic Tuesdays, such as those with fashionista Miss Malaprop, composting middle schoolers in Brooklyn, and a professor of trash; and
• Notes from a trip to Northern Malawi.

Here’s to taking trash to the next level in year two!

Love,

Leila

A new site dedicated to easing people into environmentally friendly lifestyles launched over the weekend. It’s called Blue Egg and the debut issue features everydaytrash. I hope you’ll check out my essay on garblogging.

It’s a fun site complete with interviews with innovators, news stories and online quizzes. I particularly enjoyed the Q &A with Kurt Zuelsdorf, the kayak tour operator clearing trash out of Florida wetlands; the interview with a young man inspired by pot-growing friends to start a trash-to-worm-poop fertilizer business; and video footage of the Eastern Garbage Patch.

Picture ripped from the Blue Egg site.

Simplify your bookmarks, my friends. You can now access everydaytrash via the simple web address: everydaytrash.com

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  In case you haven’t noticed, everydaytrash has a bitchin’ side bar, which links to a wealth of trashy and green blogs and other informative and entertaining resources.  This week, for example:

• BYO rounds up bag bills;
• fiftyRX3 shares Earth-friendly shoes for Spring (pictured);
• Great Green Goods highlights a hipper Flintstonemobile;
• Treehugger reports on a design school’s end of year show;
•  The Lazy Environmentalist takes to the air waves;
• Ecorazzi questions the sincerity of causes celeb;  and
• National Geographic covers composting toilets.