MetaFilter posts tagged with garbage

Where your recycling goes

caddis — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:57:50 -0800

Your cafefully separated recycling heads to the dump. Reporters in D.C. follow some of the trucks around town and watch them dump the trash and the recycling together into the same truck. (previously)

Studying the plastic soup

kanuck — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:18:27 -0800

Discovered in 1997 by oceanographer Charles Moore, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 3.5 million tons of trash, 80% of which is plastic. Moore is the founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, which is conducting ongoing research into the patch. Blog from their current expedition on the research vessel Alguita. The Scripp's Institution of Oceanography is also studying the patch. Blog from their SEAPLEX expedition. greatgarbagepatch.org tracks community efforts to stop trashing the ocean. Previously: [1, 2].

Teach, Bundanoon, teach!

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:18:47 -0800

Australian town bans bottled water.

Lunar Leftovers.

gman — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:03:46 -0800

How the Moon Became a Trash Can. "The biggest trash can outside of earth's atmosphere is in fact the moon."

Offal off-limits? Officially, no.

Lemurrhea — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:00:10 -0800

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a search of your trash doesn't violate your privacy. This decision is in line with that of the United States. For those interested in the issues surrounding privacy in Canada, the blog of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner is an invaluable resource. (prev)

Flaming garbage cans in hip hop videos

Demogorgon — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:15:40 -0800

Flaming Garbage Cans In Hip Hop Videos. Pretty self-explanatory; a blog that tracks the use of the flaming garbage can in hip hop music videos.

Hello Hello

srs — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:22:47 -0800

Hello Hello Finally a myspace blog post worth seeing: funny window messages about neighbors with trash disposal concerns, vaguely reminiscent of the window messages in "You and Me and Everyone Else We Know" Please suggest websites for more funny window messages. Is this normal?

What Gets Left Behind

netbros — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:17:43 -0800

Federal and state government officials and border activists say the garbage dumped in the Sonoran Desert by illegal immigrants and their smugglers is staggering. The cleanup is costing taxpayers millions. The Southern Arizona Project(pdf) is a multi-year program setup by the Bureau of Land Management to mitigate the impacts to the ecology by illegal immigration and smuggling. In 2006 alone, more than 1.18 million pounds of trash was collected along the southern Arizona border.

Making a point, the pigpen way.

desjardins — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:39:24 -0800

This guy saved all his trash for an entire year. It amounted to 96 cubic feet. Perhaps not surprisingly, his message is conservation.

The Garbage Man Can

brooklynexperiment — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:03:04 -0800

The Garbage Game. What would you do with 64,000 tons of garbage every week? The Gotham Gazette is a not-for-profit newspaper that reports on New York City politics and policy. On their site is a highly informative game that puts you in the place of a resident and then the Sanitation Commissioner, shedding some light on NYC's garbage problem.

Ban The Bag

chuckdarwin — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:39:47 -0800

The Algalita Marine Research Foundation's video Synthetic Sea is pretty shocking. "All we can do is stop polluting and hope the system will clean itself up in hundreds of years." So, what will be the fate of the plastic bag until the inevitable ban comes? Should they be Taxed? Should they be Banned ? Should stores charge extra for them? We don't really have a lot of time to argue about it.

Makes you a better person, instantly!

infini — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:49:53 -0800

The Daily Dump [video] is an open source design for a terracotta home composting unit that aims to provide manifold benefits - for potters, for homemakers, and also for civil society, particularly in a country where waste removal isn't as regular or reliable a service. How to's here.

Dumpster Turf Wars

leftcoastbob — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:24:06 -0800

Garbage In/Gold Out Which is more important: recycling or the garbage collector's bottom line? Some Oregon cities are backing up the garbage collectors over recyclers. Too bad. First time I've ever seen a dumpster diving company who has a web page with testimonials from police officers.

What a load of rubbish...

Orange Goblin — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:07:12 -0800

Garbage of New York City - litter that is collected, packaged up in a neat plastic box, and then sold for $50 a pop.

GAARRRBAGE DAY! Bwa ha ha!

indiebass — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:26:38 -0800

Garbage Day! I don't know where this is from or what it means. But I can't stop watching it.

Garbage Scout

stbalbach — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 21:11:44 -0800

GarbageScout. An interactive online map for locating and posting free stuff that's lying around your neighborhood.

Dumpster-diving forum

mediareport — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:20:19 -0800

Dumpster World - "Your Dumpster Diving and Curb Crawling Resource." [via Information Nation, which also links to that story of a woman who was recently unloaded into a garbage truck]

Garbage, garbage everywhere, and not a drop to drink!

afiler — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:18:11 -0800

The Garbage House is a bizarre but all-too-common phenomenon. Garbage houses often seem to be a product of a particular type of obsessive-compulsive disorder called compulsive hoarding. The hoarding [wmv, direct] may be of garbage, animals, (the neighborhood "cat lady") or perhaps even "collectibles" from eBay. The most compulsive hoarders seem to be the Collyer Brothers[*], even prompting a book.

What a waste

knave — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:40:19 -0800

Recycling ... Is Garbage. John Tierney looks at the reality of recycling and concludes it is largely a wasted effort.
Appeared in the NY Times in June, 1996.

#008: So you just take pictures in garbage cans? No, just one! Same one everytime!

limitedpie — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 18:40:27 -0800

T h e m a n w i t h a g a r b a g e c a n .

This is the last year we throw trash.

drezdn — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:16:10 -0800

Mongo is the treasures people discover in garbage, and Ted Botha has written an excellent book about it and talked about it. If your curiousity is peaked, you might want to try it yourself.

Thermochemical and biochemical conversion

stbalbach — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:52:28 -0800

First it was turkey parts, then pig waste and now straw added to the camels back. Thermochemical and biochemical conversion make use of natural processes such as enzymes, heat and pressure to create oil from garbage so one day landfills may become the new domestic oil fields.

TRASHLOG - Found art

pedantic — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:09:25 -0800

TRASHLOG — or — arresting and acute observation of ordinary offal.

Trashtalking - German Style

gregb1007 — Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:07:22 -0800

Trashtalking - German Style. Forget talking dolls, Berlin's speechifying its trash cans to thank pedestrians after they dump their litter. But is it appropriate to have immaterial things tell you how to use them? [More Inside]

what is trash to you might be treasure to another ...

grabbingsand — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:55:46 -0800

Freecycling. Reducing the amount of trash we generate by connecting people who have things that they no longer want with people who want those same things. The only rule: Every item posted must be free.