Coming from America, or some nation similarly skilled in methods of clandestine waste removal – with magic, automatic flush toilets; color-coded trash bins; and troops of picker-uppers who carouse the streets in great machines with as much authority as fire engines – such unglamorous, undisguised removal may be a bit shocking. Here in...
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The rains had just subsided. Sick Baby Street (also known as Guangzhou Lu) was crawling with parents carrying their patched children in their arms like loads of firewood. The stench – some amalgam of diaper, gasoline, and steaming buns – repelled the nose from its ordinary forward aim; out of pure necessity...
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It has been over a year since I last wrote on the Garbage Ninja species. Don’t let this fool you. We have not for one moment slackened our research or field work on the subject. Nor have we been entirely frustrated by a lack of results. You may remember from...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 57
Garbage garbage all over the place,
In your belly, On your face.
Garbage for seeing,
Garbage for yelling,
Garbage for listening,
Garbage for smelling.
If it weren’t for garbage
I don’t know what I’d do,
Certainly this poem wouldn’t
be here for you.
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“recycle, unredeemable”
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Dear G. Bush,
We apologize for your given title (the G, of course, is short for Garbage), which we realize is unfortunately similar to the name of our infamous leader, the number 1 American, the grand dunce of Washington, G.W. Bush, who, for slightly more than a week, will continue to be all of those...
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“Can be reused rubbish, Can’t be reused rubbish”
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