The group also asked the EPA to study the Pacific Garbage Patch, a high concentration of swirling garbage, derelict fishing gear and tiny debris particles sometimes described as a "plastic soup".
Although "The Sleep-Over Artist" finds much room for such sidelong atmospheric commentary (and for trying to establish a sense of history with references to yippies, to Alex's boyhood favorite pornography show on television and to the guy who used to study Bob Dylan's garbage), its real focus is on the series of women Alex encounters.
Frustrated, the future Hall of Famer tossed his gear into the garbage, vowing to return to college to study architecture.
To study the independent and joint effects of these together with garbage burning we used the following exposure categories: (1) charcoal use only, (2) charcoal and LPG use, (3) garbage burning only, (4) both LPG use and garbage burning, and (5) both charcoal use and garbage burning.
It is against this background that our objective was to study the associations between the determinants of indoor air quality such as cooking fuel choices, cooking sequence and patterns, and household garbage burning practices, and birth weight in Accra households.
Couldn't wait for that garbage to go away".
Nobody's garbage to pick up after".
An article on May 1 about biodegradable home products misstated the name of the university where researchers conducted the Garbage Project, which studied landfills for several decades beginning in the 1970s.
The Character Study last Sunday about Ed Shevlin, a New York City garbage collector who studies the Irish language and culture, misstated the name of a circular pin that shows the wearer speaks Irish.
"If Fresh Kills had been like other landfills of the 1940's, it would have been shut down in the 60's," said William Rathje, a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Arizona and the founder of the Garbage Project, which studies landfills around the world.
