Topic: Garbage
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San Francisco's Trash Inspectors Get Up Earlier Than You Do
Behind the scenes of the city's aggressive campaign to monitor and educate people about exactly what should get thrown away.
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The Inescapable Patterns of Garbage
Artist Gabriel Orozco has applied a fresh logic to trash-as-art.
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The Big Fix
The Developing World's Most Innovative City for Trash Management Is ... Bangalore?
The Indian city is setting itself up as a model for how struggling cities can better handle waste disposal.
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After Deaths, Villagers Block Trucks From Dumping Bangalore's Trash
Garbage piles on the streets of the Indian city as villagers protest dump's contamination.
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With Urbanization Comes Mountains of Trash
Cities in developing countries will see waste management challenges skyrocket as they continue to grow.
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Turning Old Beer Bottles Into Garden Mulch
Is there anything high-speed flexible impactors can't flail into gold?
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Cincinnati Does Not Smell Like Used Kitty Litter
The real scent of the Ohio city is far more complex.
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The Big Fix
Can Hong Kong Solve its Garbage Crisis?
The cramped city-state is only years away from running out of landfill space.
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London's New Superpower Recycle Bins
They have LCD screens for news, wi-fi and can withstand major bomb blasts.
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Videos
Video of the Day: Cairo's Garbage People
A new documentary follows a family of Coptic Christians, one of thousands who tend to the city's trash
