Though it’s hard to believe, these are actual houses of real people, originally planned as residential buildings, not landfills. Cleaning such a place means garbage disposal, literally.

He has some serious anger issues…
 

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?

Sometimes things are not what they appear to be.

There is a problem going on in Naples, Italy. There are no modern incinerators and no capacity remaining in its dumps. The city has no choice but to leave its garbage uncollected. Now it’s piling up in the streets.

It is really scary to think what environment our kids will get after us.

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.