The garbage had a voice, the California Nurses Union amplified it, and California was spared domination by a billionaire whose policies would have further brutalized the poor and impoverished the middle class. .
The taxes on garbage had an immediate impact.
The problem, apparently, is that Royte assumes that we, the people who are producing all this garbage, have an obligation to provide our children and grandchildren with a planet that has not been despoiled by human waste.
The sight of an A-lister having a Slurpee or taking out his garbage has become a huge get in the current media ecosystem.
In a city whose stressed budget and inefficiencies mirror the country's, garbage has become a huge issue, a symptom of the body politic's iffy health.
Instead, there's a brooding, traditional feel to this atmospheric and evocative set of songs dealing with life in a post-industrial age where factories are deserted, garbage has become a decoration and motorways are a place to sleep.
Garbage has become an obsession… Today, greater Mexico City has a population of about twenty million, and its air pollution, its traffic, and its "horrible mixture" of new and old… Jacaranda night club, owned by Cesar Balsa, the hotel-chain millionaire, mentioned in LETTER FROM MEXICO CITY.
What to do with New York City's garbage has been a vexing question for years, but especially since the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island closed last year.
Garbage has become an obsession for the inhabitants of Mexico City, the world's largest urban conglomerate.
But we've never seen anything like Beirut, where a malodorous mix of political paralysis and festering garbage has residents in a rage.
