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...RECYCLING 745 Kilograms of trash generated per person in the U.S. in 2005, the latest data available. Some 32% of this waste was recycled, double the rate from 15 years ago $236 billion Estimated annual revenue of the U.S. recycling industry...
...Pounds of trash generated per person in the U.S. in 2005, the most recent year for which data are available. Some 32% of this waste was recycled, a rate that has doubled in the past 15 years...
...aside from the sets. He painted the portrait of former House Masters Warren and Ann Wacker that now hangs in Cabot’s formal living room and also helped to design the House tie. A 991 Crimson article also described Ketelhohn’s construction of sculptures from trash. “For the past three days, visitors to Cabot have been met in the foyer by a display of garbage sculptures mounted on pedestals and walls. But dissenting murmurs of ‘Hygiene!’ only provoke an affable greeting from Superintendent Gene Ketelholn, at whose...
...manure and past heaping piles of cabbage leaves and rotting tomatoes. Skinny porters doubled over beneath burlap sacks full of vegetables shuffle through the quagmire, trying to avoid the trucks that belch blue clouds of diesel exhaust and the sacred but occasionally cantankerous cows munching on piles of trash. Women squat behind piles of vegetables they will carry to distant neighborhoods for a tiny profit. The grocery business in India is choreographed chaos, a commercial dance honed over decades, fascinating and charming in its own way but also corrupt, unhygienic and highly inefficient...
...vegetables that have passed their sell-by dates. Madeleine, a 60-year-old mother of 10, lives with several thousand others in the area around the dump. When the truck arrives, it's a ferocious feast. Hundreds of scavengers descend on the skip, elbowing their way into the trash and plunging their hands in deep. "The supermarkets are the best," says Madeleine. "It's in boxes, all arranged." Nor do the inhabitants of Mindwube just find food. There are "plates, dresses, jewelry, liqueurs, TVs, dvds, fridges, children's toys and mobile phones," says André Boussougou, 40. His specialty...