Did you think trash cans were used only to collect garbage? 60 competitors took to the streets of Hemeskeil, Germany this past weekend to take part in the Garbage Can World Cup (locally known as the Dustbins World Cup), a sort of ‘street luge’ using tricked out garbage cans rather than a board or sled. Read More…
Photo of Justin Gilpatrick in the ambulance. Via: NY Daily News
Hauling your own trash isn’t always a good idea but is a necessity at times, particularly in parts of the world lacking municipal trash hauling service like we have here in America. However, there’s a right way to do it, and a wrong way. We’ve compiled a great collection of images showcasing the wrong way to haul trash…enjoy! Read More…
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A New York City Sanitation Department located in the heart of Manhattan is unlike any other in the country. The two-story building housing the sanitation trucks and other equipment has been transformed into a makeshift art gallery stocked with paintings, sports memorabilia, sculptures and other works of art. The kicker is that all the items were collected along the curbside of New York City streets. Read More…
An innovative new gizmo promises to catch every thing you throw at. It’s a trash can equipped with a small motor, wheels and motion sensor. Throw crumbled paper in its path, and it will catch it, even if your aim is as bad as mine. Read More…
A department store in the UK decorated an East London building with 10,000 pieces of clothing in an effort to raise awareness about the vast amount of clothing that ends up in landfills each year. Marks & Spencer calls it the “Schwopping Project”, a cross between shopping and swapping. Read More…
“Pyramids People” by HA Schult. Giza, Egypt, 2002.
Here are 14 examples of amazing structures made from trash, junk, garbage, waste, rubbish…whatever you want to call it. Read More…
Vollis Simpson has been creating spectacular folk art since World War II. His medium of choice is pretty much any type of junk he can get his hands on. Some of his sculptures are as tall as buildings. The North Carolina man’s work is on display at several museums across the U.S., including museums in New York, Atlanta and Baltimore. Read More…
A team of scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have invented a toilet that turns human waste into electricity and fertilizer while reducing the amount of water used by 90-percent. The so-called ‘No-Mix Vacuum Toilet’ is currently undergoing trial runs at several of the university’s bathrooms, and if testing goes well, you may be shitting sitting on one within the next few years. Read More…
