http://garbager.com Throw it away. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:08:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In flood-prone Guédiawaye, Senegal, people who are too poor to buy other building materials buy garbage, and use it to keep their homes above water, creating a breeding ground for disease year-round. Garbage might have seemed safe to the boy because it is everywhere in this forlorn, dun-colored slum abutting Dakar, ... http://garbager.com/2009/06/01/garbage-sold-as-building-material-in-senegal-causes-public-health-catastrophe/ Here's a patented design for a pizza box which transforms into four "plates" and a container for leftovers. So cool! Green Box - Product Demo Developed by Environmentally Conscious Organization, Inc. As far as I can tell they are not yet in production.Share http://garbager.com/2009/05/31/pizza-box-transforms-into-4-plates-and-a-container-for-leftovers/ Sunday night in the back blocks of Union Square. David was kind enough to stand in each photo for scale. Share http://garbager.com/2009/04/20/union-square-trash-affair/ Joshua Allen Harris is a street artist who makes inflatable sculptures out of shopping bags and trash bags. The sculptures inflate by means of subway or exhaust air. Part of the magic of it is that it looks like trash on the street, then it becomes animated and comes to life ... http://garbager.com/2009/03/31/trashbag-art/ "When Street Team member (weact.org), and Harlem resident, Betty Fincher inquired about the best way to have garbage complaints addressed, Supervisor Milagros Medina of the Department of Sanitation (DOS) informed the team that calling 311 and stating specific problems was the most effective manner of problem resolution. She stated that ... http://garbager.com/2009/03/30/new-yorkers-should-dial-311-to-deal-with-trash/ The New York City rat is called Rattus Norvegicus (Norway Rat) or sewer rat or water rat. It has a life span of about one year. It is 12 to 16” long including the tail. It weighs one pound. The female gives birth 5 to 8 times a year and ... http://garbager.com/2009/03/30/the-norway-rat/ "We put rats in relatively large areas with objects and routes resembling those in Manhattan,” explains Prof. Eilam. The rats, he found, do the same things humans do: They establish a grid system to orient themselves. Using the grid, the rats covered a vast amount of territory, “seeing the sights” ... http://garbager.com/2009/03/30/rats-prefer-the-grid-of-manhattan/ [caption id="attachment_210" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="Nolita trash pile"][/caption] It doesn't seem to matter what side of the Williamsburg bridge you're on, the trash is high and wide on a Sunday night.Share http://garbager.com/2009/03/30/nasty-nolita/ [caption id="attachment_205" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="trash in williamsburg"][/caption] Cruising the trashy streets of Williamsburg on a spring Sunday evening.Share http://garbager.com/2009/03/30/williamsburg-pile-up/ Many people have seen photographs of seals trapped in nets or choked by plastic six-pack rings, or sea turtles feeding on plastic shopping bags, but the poster child for the consumption of pelagic plastic debris has to be the Laysan albatross. The plastic gadgets one typically finds in the stomach ... http://garbager.com/2009/03/22/plastic-the-oceans-albatross/