Rio de Janeiro Closes One of the World's Largest Garbage Dumps
Open-air garbage dumps, and the people who live off of them, have long been a symbol of the environmental and social terrors of the developing world. And for decades, one of the most symbolic of the...
View ArticleRubbish: Uncovering the Truth About Trash
What we throw away, where we toss it, and what gets recycled has been a concern for decades. As more and more Americans are living closer together in urban areas, the trash problem has become even...
View ArticleGalactic Garbage Can: There's 400,000 Pounds of Trash on The Moon
What do the following items have in common?5 American flags12 pairs of boots96 bags of urine, feces, and vomitA photograph of Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke's familyIf you guessed that these are all...
View ArticleSpecial Guest: Niall Kirkwood
Niall Kirkwood teaches Landscape Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard where he is also the director of the Center for Technology and Environment. His passion for trashed and...
View ArticleTrash, Landfill, Fenway
Kurt Andersen and the landscape architect Niall Kirkwood, explore the millions of ways that artists use trash. A sculptor in Texas rescues cast-offs for his art. A New Yorker devotes her creative...
View ArticleLandfill Artist
Over thirty years ago, New York artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles decided to find out what happened to her own garbage, and she never turned back. Produced by Mallory Kasdan.
View ArticleJunk Sculptor
The sculptor and performance artist Ned Schaper has been working with found objects for the last twenty years. He says his kinetic junk-sculptures come together by accident. Produced by Julia Barton.
View ArticleTrashed
Have you ever been rooting around in some drawer in your house and come across an old short story from college? Or a poem you wrote in high school? Chances are, that whether you thought the thing was...
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Mess or Blessing?
photo by Jill ZimmermanOne of our recent contributors to the Uncommon Economic Indicators loves her view (see photo).She writes, ' walking around my [Williamsburg] neighborhood, I see tons of empty...
View ArticlePicking Up After Your Picnic
Prospect Park has over eight million visitors a year. On summer weekends, the park is packed with bikers, walkers, picnickers, and kite flyers. But despite the daily trash collection and a campaign...
View ArticleCity Trash Removal Resumes
For the first time in a week, city sanitation department crews are out picking up garbage instead of plowing snow.A limited number of crews are on the streets Sunday, picking up dumpsters outside large...
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Should You Treat a Subway Platform Like Yosemite?
(photo by Stephen Nessen/WNYC)TN's Jim O'Grady was on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show this morning to talk about the NY MTA's attempt to reduce trash in the subway. One experiment: remove trash cans to...
View ArticleThe Trash Train
Jim O'Grady, WNYC's transit reporter, explains the latest MTA plan to fight litter by removing trash barrels from subway platforms.
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People DO Litter Less Without Subway Trash Cans. But They're Not Happy About It
(photo by Stephen Nessen/WNYC)A counter-intuitive subway garbage experiment is yielding mixed resultsFive months ago the city removed trash cans at two stations -- the Main Street/Flushing #7 station...
View ArticleCurbing Our Waste
Looking for ways to cut back the amount of garbage you're producing? We have some helpful hints!Edward Humes was on the Leonard Lopate Show on April 26 to discuss his new book Garbology: Our Dirty Love...
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How to Clean Subway Stations: Remove Trash Cans
The NY MTA will expand a rodent-fighting pilot program to eight new subway stations after initial success from removing trash cans on platforms.The transit agency removes 40 tons of garbage every day...
View ArticleTurning Trash into Energy
Mike Hart, President and CEO of Sierra Energy, will talk about their FastOx Pathfinder, a machine that turns common trash into useable energy. While still in its infant stages of development, this...
View ArticleTo see life's oddities, you have to vist an odd place — a museum in an...
Mmuseumm, the smallest museum in New York, could probably fit in your bathroom — and its contents might not look much different from the stuff in your cabinets. That's because this museum is all about...
View ArticleThis City Councilman Wants to Charge For Un-Recycled Trash
Smaller cities across the country have been doing it for years: forcing residents to buy special garbage bags to set out on their curbs, and then taking the profits from the bags to pay for the...
View ArticleWaste an Hour (or Two) With Us
Welcome to Garbage Day at The Leonard Lopate Show, where we explore the many facets of trash and waste in this country.The growing food waste epidemic. Chef Dan Barber of Blue Hill and Adam Kaye, its...
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