All this trash has caught the eyes of enterprising Iraqis looking for scrap metal or reusable objects like discarded headphones and DVDs.
He failed to ask any relevant questions about Newsnight before the piece was scrapped and was caught out again when the programme's editor rushed out an explanation as to why it was dropped almost a year later.
Then you caught a scrap of conversation: "Hey, Mike, remember the jumper at the Carter Hotel who got impaled on the fence?
This innocuous wisp of a film, as weighty as a scrap of fax paper caught in an updraft, suggests that the answer is no.
"I recently drove to the Gobi and saw 100 trucks stuck in the mud, just one after the other," Enkhbaatar Ochirbal, a mining consultant in Ulan Bator, said of trucks loaded with scrap metal that were caught by an unexpected rainstorm in the Gobi Desert.
Cleveland remains number one, and scrapping here has even caught the attention of the FBI, who have recently been investigating and busting organized rings for transporting stolen metal across state lines and stealing from federally regulated electrical substations.
Once their "mistake" was caught, the officials scrapped the list.
"At the moment, we're in a halfway house where we're buying scraps of fish that were caught for human consumption," he told me.
His studio feels as if he had just nipped out for a cup of tea, being still a clutter of palettes, T-squares, scraps of sandpaper, objects that caught his fancy, and photographic paraphernalia.
And while we're at it, can we please scrap the catch-all millennial tag that brackets everyone aged 18-34 years old into one lump?
