http://garbagescout.com/blog Weblog about the GarbageScout project Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:11:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Anheuser-Busch, via an industry sponsored fake environmental website, promotes the idea that recycling of waste is not the problem of, or responsibility of, the companies that produce and distribute the disposable products. Their Baldwinsville, NY facility is the 11th largest discharger of toxic waste into water in ... http://garbagescout.com/blog/?p=62 The Garden State Subversive writes about disposable clothing, suggesting we "buy alternative fibers such as bamboo and hemp", OK, but what about wool? Pretty much lasts forever. Kind of a pain to wash, I guess. Also comes from sheep. Not efficient. Anyway, in the article she ... http://garbagescout.com/blog/?p=61 The new Yahoo! Mapmixer site lets you mix your own map (uploaded in the form of an image file like gif or png) with a map provided by Yahoo. What's the intended use of this, and why not support KML? http://garbagescout.com/blog/?p=60 Just finished Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte. Quite good. It starts out like a sort of new-journalism Rubbish, but gets tougher. She goes places Cullen and Rathje didn't (like, the Mafia and carting), and asks good questions (why do we bring drinking water from the Catskills, only ... http://garbagescout.com/blog/?p=59 Couple of companies in Evanston Indiana want to be the first in the world to provide full-scale waste-to-energy plants with processes previously used only in demonstration projects. This means turning not just a specific, controlled industrial waste stream, but the insanity that is municipal solid waste. "The thorny ... http://garbagescout.com/blog/?p=58 Pretty good timeline courtesy of the Daily Apple blog http://garbagescout.com/blog/?p=57 [Via the delicious Wasted Food blog:] Using excreta in the digesters helps manage human waste at source and avoids ground water contamination. BIOTECH'S use of latrines is considered to be a major breakthrough in combating water and air-pollution. Mrs Anna Benedict from Kumbalangi island panchayat, comments: "Before we had the plant, ... http://garbagescout.com/blog/?p=56 My writing style is stiff and boring, and wholly unfit for the business of writing about such a lively subject as municpal solid waste. I need to garbage-juice it up a bit. To this end shall all my powers of cogitation be employed. http://garbagescout.com/blog/?p=55 Fruit, especially expensive fruit, is now often sold in little foam sleeves. Before you get too upset about this practice, though, think about the amount of energy it takes to grow and transport a banana to your local grocery store. If the banana gets damaged, it's going into the waste ... http://garbagescout.com/blog/?p=54 This is extremely disgusting. I warn you: frog heads. But, as one commenter says, "Studying garbage is studying its culture." (You get the idea. I don't suggest you try to diagram that sentence.) http://garbagescout.com/blog/?p=53