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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“recycle, unredeemable”
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“Can be reused rubbish, Can’t be reused rubbish”
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Waste Not Yet Ye Be Wasted
A simple garbage bin, a pleasant wood exterior, designed in accordance with the ultra-modern concept of discretion when disposing. Right bin or left bin?. Choose wisely. Consumption has past; it is too late to change that. You weren’t satisfied with your purchase? ...
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Dear People Who Sweep in the Wee Hours of the Night,
No, that is not a result of careless typing; nor is it a cheap jab at the Asian people’s often-mocked struggle to pronounce the notorious letter ‘L.’
We have heard you out there. Sometimes, as we wake during the night and stumble to the...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 20
Free range cattle! Hooray for their freedom! And look at the chain of consumption – gloriously short! From us, to the ground, to them, to us. Hooray for trash eating cows! And like that we have achieved a picture title and focus.
As you know, this is the...
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