In Boston, one set of community activists cleaned up their block and dumped the trash -- gathered from the front lawn of a foreclosed Bank of America-owned home -- on the doorstep of the regional bank president's brownstone.
After the trash is gathered and weighed, the volunteers on Sombrio will have picked up approximately 650 pounds of garbage, including a substantial bundle of gigantic wire that's washed ashore.
After the trash is gathered and weighed, the volunteers on Sombrio will have picked up approximately 650-lbs of garbage, including a substantial bundle of gigantic wire that's washed ashore.
After the trash is gathered and weighed, the volunteers on Sombrio will have picked up approximately 650 pounds of garbage, including a substantial bundle of gigantic wire that's washed ashore.
Don't worry about what you are picking up (as long as it's not an empty chip bag or soda can those go right into the trash), just gather and remove.
The problem with the idea, of course, is that people in workfare are not city employees, no matter how much trash they have gathered, no matter how important Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani says they have been in his efforts to improve the city's quality of life.
Though just two blocks west of the tourist-thronged Piazza Navona, the neighborhood has retained its character, and amid the ice cream emporiums, pubs and souvenir shops, there remain mom and pop grocery stores, tiny cubicles where artisans go about their timeless craft, and antiques sellers who sit amid treasures and trash that have gathered centuries of dust.
One day I gathered trash as a garbage collector.
Residents along Mission and Mendoza Drive in Costa Mesa gathered trash bags, brooms and dust pans and took to the streets Saturday morning to clean up their neighborhood.
The bodies are those of unwanted newborn children discarded in the city, gathered by trash collectors, and found by workers at the dump.
In Buenos Aires, during a terrible market crash, artists began making books out of scraps — cardboard gathered from trash, painted with bright, organic colors — with photocopied pages of texts donated by prominent authors.
