While it's no real surprise that the U.S. gets the gold as the #1 trash-producing country in the world, at 1,609 pounds per person per year, it's hard to get one's arms around the idea that three-quarters of what's dumped, according to recycling-revolution.com, is organic garbage, food waste by any other name, that could be composted.
As the mercury rose, so did the volume at No. 135, 151, and 177 (Deafheaven, Trash Talk, A389 Summer Extinction).
Chillwave half remembers 80s trash, theoretically without irony.
By March, volunteers had cleared off 30 to 40 trash bags of debris.
Bridgeport recently unveiled a plan to place about 100 trash cans decorated by artists along Main Street.
In response, the public workds department spent more than $1 million on 24,000 trash cans.
It was a task bravely undertaken by Divine and John Waters, the Dietrich and Von Sternberg of 70s trash culture.
To date: 234,500 bumper stickers, 75,000 trash cans, 15,154 T-shirts and forests of pencils and placards and pamphlets.
At the Browning-Ferris center, nearly all the 195 trash pickers are recent immigrants, said Russ Kruk, the manager.
A24 Trash Lawsuit Dismissed A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by several Southern California cities challenging regulations to reduce trash in local waterways.
