Word: trashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just after 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, police received a report that two men brandishing weapons had tied up two pharmacy workers and filled four plastic trash bags with drugs...
...fiction. % It is movie journalism: tabloid with a master touch. And the master, the suave manipulator, is Alan Parker. By avocation he is a caricaturist, and by vocation too. He chooses gross faces, grand subjects, base motives, all for immediate impact. The redneck conspirators are drawn as goofy genetic trash: there's not a three-digit IQ in the lot, not a chin in a carload. These are not bad men -- they're baaaad guys. And the blacks are better than good; their faces reveal them as martyrs, sanctified by centuries of suffering. Caricature is a fine dramatic tradition, when...
What can be done to prevent the world from wallowing in waste? Most important is to reduce trash at its source. At the consumer level, one option is to charge households a garbage-collection fee according to the amount of refuse they produce. Manufacturers too need more prodding. Higher fines, taxes and stricter enforcement might force offending industries to curb waste. Industry must also re-examine its production processes. Such an approach already has a successful track record. The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. has cut waste generation in half by using fewer toxic chemicals, separating out wastes that...
Recycling, of course, is perhaps the best-known way to reduce waste. Some countries do it better than others. Japan now recycles more than 50% of its trash, Western Europe around 30%. The U.S. does not fare nearly so well: only 10% of American garbage -- or 16 million tons a year -- is recycled, and only ten states have mandatory recycling laws...
...Germany. Meanwhile, the commitment to reduce pollution has flagged. Although the U.S. accounts for less than 5% of the global population, it generates 15% of the world's sulfur dioxide emissions and 25% of nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide. Each American produces an average of 3 1/2 lbs. of trash...