Far less garbage heads for landfills each day.
"They are what we call garbage heads," he said.
In Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County in southeastern Dublin, each home's "black bin" for garbage headed to the landfill is weighed at pickup to calculate quarterly charges.
He had been, he said, "addicted to everything, a garbage-head".
Mr. Bonaduce's garbage-head shtick — he "puts the D in D list," says the announcer — can be funny, but in combination with grim mug shots and grating trivia about people like Nicollette Sheridan, his bottom-feeding can become nauseating.
But none of them can match the pure bravado of Kathy Burke's Martha, who enters Wroe's house unable to speak, gobbling food out of the garbage, her head covered with scabs, her teeth rotten.
Instead of using poison, organic gardeners pull up the vines and roots (wearing gloves, of course), and immediately dispose of them in garbage bags headed for the landfill.
I carted this one off to the brush pile and flung him to the top for the buzzards -- a more dignified fate, I figure, than stuffing him in a garbage bag headed for the landfill.
Canal Street will for now still be lined with garbage trucks headed for the Holland Tunnel on the way to points west in an exercise that has helped to push the Sanitation Department's operating costs to more than $1 billion.
