Posts Tagged ‘garbage’
Talking trash…
From Mintlife, the blog of the online finance manager, Mint, “Trashonomics“:
excerpt; click the image above or here for the full infographic
As we redouble our efforts to find contentment in composting, we might find encouragement in the memory that it was on this date in 1915 that Dinosaur National Monument was established in Colorado and Utah.
Inside the dinosaur quarry (source)
Every Picture Tells a Story…
2m40 (“Un blog impactant”) is devoted to chronicling the problems that develop when truckers fail to heed the warning sign at the mouth of one of Paris’ tunnels. The site is in French… but then, the pictures do speak for themselves.
As we watch our heads, we might recall that it was on this date in 187 that the Mobro, a garbage barge, left Islip, Long Island, on what turned into a six-month odyssey. It stopped in several other states and three other countries, looking for a place to dump the 3,200 tons of garbage it was carrying– but was turned away each time. Eventually, it sailed back to Islip, where space was found.
source: Macrobuddies
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