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Last Night's Garbage
by Gordon Hurd
Tue, October 23, 2007, 3:00 am PDT

"Each day the United States throws away
enough trash to fill 63,000 garbage trucks."
—The Cass County Solid Waste Management District

It all began on July 16, 2007, when one man decided he'd had enough. "You can't walk down a single street in New York City without the sight and smell of trash, rubbish, yesterday's news, and last night's garbage," he may have said to himself. "Everyone tosses things away: the fashionable, the leisure class, the chronically thirsty. What we need is the documentarist, a troubadour, perhaps, who can help us regard what we waste and reconsider what we discard in a whole new light. We will never look at last night's garbage in the same way."

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