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This garbage was shipped from Europe to Africa and the clever ladies in these rural towns recycle the rubbish into handbags.
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Gregory Kloehn is an artist from Oakland who goes dumpster diving for trash that he turns into works of art.
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The Rub and Stub restaurant in Denmark is a volunteer run establishment that offers guests meal choices made out of discarded supermarket and farming food. The food is usually either misshapen, unripe or past its sell by date but it is still completely edible.
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Clever interior designers transform these discarded items into interesting and useful ‘new’ items of furniture.
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“The test was performed with a box of camp waste (largely food rests) in a bin bag. Estimated weight 30kg, Size 60x60x60cm. Fall height, about 80m. The lake reacts with violent lava fountaining activity, presumably in part due to steam produced from the organic matter.”
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One husband made a huge mistake by losing something of value. However, see what he was willing to do to retrieve it. Would you do the same?
A resident of Malawi William Kamkwamba built five wind turbines from scrap materials power. The idea to build a wind turbines came to William in 2002 when he was expelled from school for non-payment. A 14-year-old decided to educate himself and began visiting the local library, where he saw the image of a windmill on the cover of the 8th grade American textbook called Using Energy.
One man dumps his garbage on another man’s place. The second man gets his revenge.
Almost 1/3 of China is sinking in garbage. Local recycling plants can process only 50% of the domestic garbage. Ecology of many cities is under threat, because the mountains of trash grow by 4.8% per year. And if this situation doesn’t change in the nearest future, all Chinese landfills will disappear under the trash by 2015.
We love taking you from grimaces to grins and this set of pictures will make you say awww and guffaw as well.
When is Garbage Day?
These are photos of Marseilles, France. It seems that the garbage collectors have been on strike and this is the result. Apparently, they are trying to force the President to raise the retirement age to 62. But I doubt if the President is having any trouble getting his garbage picked up.
Manshiet Nasser is a strange community in Cairo, Egypt. People call this place The City of Garbage because tons of trash come here from all over the capital of Egypt. The most unusual thing about this place is that people actually live here. Another strange thing about Manshiet Nasser is that local residents, the Zabbaleen, including women and kids dig through the garbage looking for something to resell. About 80 per cent of this trash is recycled and resold later on.
Cairo is not the only city on earth where such a model of Manshiet Nasser exists. It is already copied by communities in Los Angeles, Bombay and Manila.
The horrible flood in China brought tons of garbage to the country. It takes several cleaning boats to get rid of all the mess.
In case you missed it, see also Oil Spill in China: Man Nearly Drowned.
Designer H.A. Schult has designed the world’s first hotel made entirely of garbage in Rome. The purpose of the hotel is to raise awareness about the damage we are causing to the European seas and the coastline by the large amount of waste that is being washed up.
The Garbage Pail kids in these photos are nothing short of disgusting. I don’t know who collects these things but they need to find a new hobby. They don’t even have a face a Mother could have.
Here is another set of pictures on Cairo.
You’ll see in this post "Zabbaleen", an unofficial labor force collecting garbage all over Cairo. They collect the garbage and take it out of Cairo to their ‘garbage city’.
Take a look at the first part too, you’ll see more pics and also have more explanations.
There is a province in the Philippines called Cebu. The local people live there in miserable conditions, like living in a "mountain of garbage."
And among all this dirt, kids are playing there. Here’s their "happy" childhood ((