29 Things You Didn't Know About Garbage (But You Should)

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29 Things You Didn’t Know About Garbage

(But You Should)

It all started 12.000 years ago -long before plastic bags or skipsentered our lives.

Waste a bit of your time to readthese weird facts about garbage;

they will make you feelsurprisingly clean.

* Parental Advisory: this articlecontains only trash talk.

http://blog.hss.com/historyofgarbage/



29 ThingsYou Didn’t Know About Garbage

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1.As early as 10000 BC human waste becomes an issue; people begin to settle permanent settlements and the idea of hanging out with buffalo bones and bevery night seems somewhat repulsive.

2. The first landfill was created in Knossos, around 3000 BC, when Cretans woulholes for refuse. After dumping the garbage the holes were filled with dirt.

3. In 500 BC a new law is voted in Athens, Greece, redirecting the garbage dumone mile away from the city. Can you spot the lesson on democracy here? “Lothers deal with your trash”.

4. In 200 AD a sanitation force is created in Rome: small teams of two men walkthe streets with the sole purpose of picking up garbage and putting it into wais widely known, today, as “Trash Romana”.

5. Around 1350, and just in a 5 year period, the Black Death kills approximately people in Europe, an estimated 30%-60% of the population at the time. The Plague, which is believed to have caused it along with Cholera and Typhoid Fperpetuated by filth that harboured rats and contaminated water supply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death




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6. The first official garbage men in modern history appear in Britain in the mid-“Rakers” just… rake up the trash into carts on a weekly basis. No strikes wereduring that period.

7. In 1400, piles of litter rise so high outside of Parisian gates that they affect thdefence during the Hundred Years’ War. Back then Paris wasn’t the “City of Lthe “City of Flies”.

8. In 1657 a new law against dropping litter in the streets is voted in New AmsteManhattan). The efforts intensify a few centuries later, so that Sex & the CityBradshaw can walk around carefree in her high heel Manolo Blahniks.

9. The U.S.A blaze a trail in metal recycling as early as 1776, when patriots in Nemelt down a gilded statue of King George III to make bullets. To fight againstthe irony here?

10. Back in 1800 New York City apparently didn’t make it into travel brochures asdescribed as a "nasal disaster, where some streets smell like bad eggs dissolvammonia". It already was “the city that never sleeps”, since no one could slee

circumstances.




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11. In 1834 a law protecting vultures from hunters in Charleston, West Virginia, isthanks to ecologists, but thanks to the birds’ dietary habits of eating garbage

12. The Paris sewer system starts to get built during the second half of the 19th cThere are long delays, though, due to the persistent complaints of property oresist the idea of paying from their own money for the installation of sanitarytheir buildings. Socialism is born.

13. “The Destructor”, as promising as it may sound, is a pioneer technology that1874 in England. Built by Manlove, Alliott & Co. Ltd., the Destructor providessystematic incineration of refuse in Nottingham. Up to that point burning refbeen mostly incidental, due to methane production.

14. In 1893 Tchaikovsky dies in Saint Petersburg. Many attribute his death to choprobably contracted through drinking contaminated water several days earliSwamp Lake.

15. The turn of the century finds the residents of smaller and medium sized Amebuilding piggeries. The daily menu for the pigs involves fresh or cooked garba

“today’s specials are leftovers a la gallega and cellophane salad. Enjoy!”




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16. In 1907 Mary Mallon, a cook in New York, becomes the first American todiagnosed as a carrier of typhoid fever, thus earning the nickname “TypAfter spending three years in quarantine, she takes up a new position afalse name, although the Commissioner of Health has warned her not t

job as a cook. Typhoid fever didn’t kill her, though; pneumonia did, afte

25 years in quarantine for typhoid fever. Today she is closely associatedcases and three deaths of typhoid fever.

17. Harry Wasylyk and Larry Hansen invent the much appreciated green plabag in 1950.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/611790/Typhoid-Mary

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/611790/Typhoid-Mary




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18. In the 1970s, Richard Biffaintroduces the skip bin into his

waste business. Today, skip hireis one of the most profitableindustries in the UK withLondon being the mostexpensive city to hire skips of any size and Nottingham thecheapest in the 6 yard category.

http://www.hss.com/c/9000013/Skip-Hire.html






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19. In 1972 Michael D. Cohen, James G. March and Johan Olsen publish the acade A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice on a decision making model wdisconnects problems, solutions and decision makers from each other.

20. Whether you believe it or not, Garbology refers to the study of refuse and traconsidered an actual science. It all started in 1973 at the University of ArizonaProfessor William Rathje and to an idea that two students had for a class proj

21. In 1978 the enactment of a new law makes it compulsory for dog owners in N

City to clean up after their pets. It is estimated that until then 40.000.000 pouexcrement were deposited on the streets every year.

22. During the Olympic Games of 1984 in Los Angeles, athletes, trainers, coachespectators produce 6.5 million pounds of trash in 22 days. That is more than 6per person per day.

23. Due to the 1995 terror bombings in France, most of the public garbage bins h

replaced by transparent plastic bags.




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24.The biggest fan of rubbish E-V-E-R is Oscar the Grouch, the character children's series Sesame Street . He lives in a trash can and his most famis called “I Love Trash” . (At least he teaches honesty to the little ones.)

25. Europe generates more than 1.8 billion tonnes of waste every year.

26.It is estimated that the average American produces 64 tons of waste olifetime.

27. Garbage patchologists claim that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, thelargest garbage dump, is twice the size of Texas or 6 times the size of tit keeps growing and floating. Coming soon to a beach near you.

28.About 19,000 pieces of space debris, larger than 5 cm, are tracked orbaround the Earth, with another 300,000 pieces smaller than 1 cm belowkm altitude. For more information on safe space travel read “The Hitch

Guide to the Galaxy”.




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29.Today, 42% of our garbageis paper and textiles. Metal,plastic and glass make up23%, waste from gardensand parks 18% and foodwaste 7% of our garbage.

Garbage

Paper & Textiles Metal, Plastic & G

Garden & Park Waste Food Waste

Miscellaneous




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Famous Quotes

▪ “In Beverly Hills they don't throw their garbage away; they make it into TV shows.” Woody denounces an illegal landfill operating on American soil.

▪ “The best way to prepare to be a programmer is to write programs and to study great progother people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Sciencefished out listings of their operating system.” Bill Gates openly associates Microsoft with gar

▪ “I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage American actress Lee Grant on the real face of politics.

▪ “I've loved men that wear un-ironed clothes, it doesn't make me fall out of love. When you someone, you should see beyond their image. It just makes me want to iron their shirt. Butlove a person, they could wear a garbage bag!” Olga Kurylenko is a fan of trash fashion.

▪ “The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due toGermany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbWhen the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straightcrazy.” Justin Bieber places fans of his music where, some say, they belong; in the trash.

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“Can't have dirty garbage!” Spongebob Squarepants spreads anarchism to Bikini Bottom.




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