Dumps and Landfills
Dumps. Landfills. Midden (in the olden days). Why did anyone ever think it would be a good idea to throw all of our garbage in one big pile? Organic and inorganic matter mixed together with toxic chemicals, mixed with still useful building materials and furniture, mixed with "outdated" electronics and EVERYTHING else you can imagine. Within this subtopic of the website you will find upcycling innovations related to landfills and dumps. These heaps of "refuse" are now an indelible part of our lives, but how might we begin to salvage, reuse and even generate energy from the trash piled in landfills. Learn about garbage pickers in many parts of the world who make their living from salvaging useful things out of dumps; get ideas for how to make landfills more accessible to those interested in constructing out of waste; and explore the possibility that one day dumps and landfills may no longer be the only way of getting "rid of" our trash.
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Jo Hanson's dream come true
That's a picture of Jo Hanson, the San Francisco activist (dead now) who founded the artists-in-residency program at the San Francisco dump. I posted about it on my blog, Visible...
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How Landfills Work
This is a short video that explains the difference between a landfill and a dump and also explains briefly the process of capturing methane gas as bio-diesel. The town in Ontario...
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How I fell in love with the dump . . .
For a week in the summer of 2006 Jimmy Condon of the Shire (a learning center near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia) spent a week in Oaxaca, Mexico working with a group of innovative young...
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Vermont Landfill Making Electicity from Bio-Gas
Moretown Landfill to Make Electricity By Wilson Ring Associated Press Writer / September 9, 2008 MORETOWN, Vt.—Vermont's second largest landfill is building what would become...
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Don't Call it a DUMP!
This short video is about a waste mangement company in Southern California that keeps garbage out of the nearby Puente Hills Landfill (the largest in the U.S.), separates the...
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Trash Pickers in India Upcycle Plastic Bags...
This is the story of Anita Ahuja, former author from New Delhi, India. Ahuja started Conserve, an upcycling NGO in her living room in 1998. Now she employs several Delhi rag...
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The World's Largest "Landfill" is in the...
OUT IN THE PACIFIC PLASTIC IS GETTING DRASTIC There is a large part of the central Pacific Ocean that no one ever visits and only a few ever pass through. Sailors avoid it...
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Eco-Casas en el Basurero de Oaxaca
These are shots taken by SiKanda and friends during their recent collaboration with Techamos la Mano Oaxaca and other civil organizations in the city of Oaxaca. The purpose was...
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Pam Longobardi, coastal Hero
Time and attention get way too fragmented if you're not careful, especially in the Facebook Era. So I'm gonna protect my time and attention and just give you the link to a...
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