And then they will have to hope that recycling centers — overwhelmed with mountains of plastic, metal, paper and trash — can capture thousands of tiny, individual K-Cups and sell them for a profit.
Slat, who's heading the plan to build a 62-mile, trash-capturing wall in the Pacific, didn't have his own awakening until he tried to get his diver's license.
The best way to do that, I would say, is to spend as much time as possible with the art of someone like Isa Genzken, whose mishmashes of high and low, elegance and trash, come closer to capturing our contemporary moment than any other artist I can name.
After sailing around the world skimming the ocean surface with fine-mesh nets to capture plastic trash, we pooled our data with other scientists and published the first estimate of plastic pollution of all sizes drifting globally, amounting to 269,000 metric tons from 5.25 trillion individual pieces, of which 92% of it is microplastic smaller than a grain of rice.
And in the affecting documentary "Trash Dance," the director Andrew Garrison captures their magical performance and profiles its choreographer, Allison Orr, a skinny live wire who finds rhythm in routines and elegance in the everyday.
Of the hooligans I supposedly interviewed for my article, I was told that I had effectively "captured their white trash milieu".
In Afghanistan and Iraq, Flynn ordered JSOC commandos to collect and catalogue data from interrogations, captured electronic equipment, pocket trash — anything that could yield useful information.
Composting, rather than landfilling, tackles the methane problem by transforming rotting trash into valuable nutrients that can capture carbon and improve soil health.
Who's with me, fellow wealthy celebrities?" Though the show saw fit to offer candidate Trump a hosting gig in November 2015, well after he'd called Mexicans rapists and trashed John McCain for getting captured in Vietnam, Saturday Night Live has seemingly spent the years since that awkward "Hotline Bling" dance trying to atone for their sins.
Some scientists have proposed harpoon-like capture methods, while others hope to maneuver trash with pulses of air.
The old linear economic model of burning or burying trash has too many leaks in the system to capture and contain single-use throwaway plastics.
