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 Backstage Tour Lays 
 Bare Springer Nation 

Campy disasters inspire schadenfreude

Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Oct 1, 08 5:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - A backstage tour of The Jerry Springer Show reveals "fundamental truths about the human condition," Kevin Pang writes in the Chicago Tribune . Philanderers and home-wreckers vetted by the show receive star treatment for a day, and insist their tales are true—for the most part. It's "all legit," one said, after producers coached him on how to tell his story. More »

More about:  television • talk show • trash • television personality • talk-show host • Jerry Springer

 Britons: New Trash 
 Laws Are Rubbish 

Controversial UK measures get tough on waste

New York Times New York Times Jun 27, 08 4:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the midst of a garbage overload, the UK is cracking down on trash with strict new rules, sparking a backlash among Britons, the New York Times reports. Many areas now pick up trash only biweekly, and accept only regulation amounts. Some reject recycling bins tainted with garbage. In response, some Britons are yelling at trash collectors, stealing neighbors’ bins—and burning their rubbish. More »

More about:  Great Britain • environment • recycling • garbage • trash

 Trash Fires Blaze Across Naples 

Firefighters working overtime as angry residents burn excess garbage

AFP AFP May 19, 08 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - The prolonged garbage impasse in Naples has taken a new turn as angry residents began setting fire to thousands of tons of waste littering city streets. Firefighters were at work all night battling at least 90 burns across the city, AFP reports. “Every six to seven minutes, one of our emergency vehicles sets off with its sirens screaming,” said a local commander; new Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is set to unveil new measures to deal with the crisis Wednesday. More »

More about:  Italy • fire • garbage • trash • Naples

 Trash Fouls World's Beaches 

Environmental group reports 6M tons picked up in one-day effort

Associated Press Associated Press Apr 15, 08 8:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - One day of beach cleanup last year netted 6 million pounds of trash worldwide, an environmental group says. Volunteers in 76 countries collected an average of 182 pounds per mile of beach; the US weighed in at 390 pounds per mile, the AP reports. "We're the bad guys," said the head of the Ocean Conservancy. "Trash doesn't fall from the sky." More »

More about:  environment • pollution • beach • trash • littering • Ocean Conservancy

 Got Junk? Call These Guys 

Company turns trash into profit

NPR NPR Mar 26, 08 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - A shed full of roller skates, 400 wedding dresses, 18,000 sardine cans, a diffused bomb—1-800-GOT-JUNK? hauls away more than just trash in its custom-built dump trucks. The largest junk-hauling company in North America turned clutter into revenues of $150 million this year, says NPR, while professionalizing the industry and banishing the stereotypical image of a sloppy junk hauler in baggy pants. More »

More about:  innovation • garbage • trash • clutter

Plasma May Zap City's Garbage Crisis

New tech could burn off Vancouver's garbage and make electricity

Canada.com Feb 17, 08 6:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Vancouver may have a fix for its garbage overflow crisis: Burn the trash into a gas that makes electricity. A Canadian company called Plasco Energy Group has proposed a plant that zaps waste into ionized gas, or plasma; about a fifth of it would run the plant and the rest could be sold off. A few plasma plants by other companies have reportedly tanked, but the Vancouver Sun 's Harvey Enchin urges the city to try this one. More »

More about:  energy • garbage • Vancouver • waste • trash • landfill

Mountain of Litter
Spoiling Everest Majesty

Peak draws hundreds of climbers, who leave behind trash

Independent (UK) Independent (UK) Jan 12, 08 6:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Mount Everest remains an irresistable lure for hundreds of climbers every year—and it shows in a bad way. In the wake of Edmund Hillary's death, the Independent surveys the landscape of the world's highest mountain and finds it littered with climbers' trash. It's a matter of logistics, experts say. It's simply not easy to schlep home empty oxygen containers and the like from 29,000 feet. More »

More about:  pollution • trash • Mount Everest • Edmund Hillary • climbing

Trash Overwhelms Naples

Italian Army struggles to bulldoze
massive heaps of garbage

Reuters Reuters Jan 7, 08 2:40 PM CST
(Newser) - The Italian army has been brought in to clear away some of the mountains of trash blanketing the area around Naples. The region's garbage crisis, which has festered for years, reached crisis proportions when all waste-collection stopped before Christmas. Meanwhile, protesters are trying, in occasionally violent clashes, to stop the reopening of a dump closed in 1996, Reuters reports. More »

More about:  Italy • trash • Naples

One Man’s Garbage Is Another's Thanksgiving

Movement fights waste by foraging for food

Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Sep 11, 07 6:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Folks looking for food in a back alley these days might be “Freegans” - that’s “free” plus “vegan” - who are “opting out of capitalism in any way that we can,” one says. Their New York trash tours have already trained 14,000 people, all trying to dig out the routine waste of cast-off food. “We’re doing something that is really socially unacceptable,” says Madeline Nelson, an ex-Barnes and Noble exec. More »

More about:  New York City • food • Thanksgiving • lifestyle • trash • vegan

Naples Reeks as Garbage Dumps, Landfills Close

Trash crisis in
tourist mecca heats up along with weather

New York Times New York Times May 31, 07 6:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mounds of smelly garbage are piling up in the streets of Naples, as a shortage of places to dump it has reached a crisis: the last landfill in Naples closed Saturday. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is pleading with politicians and citizens to save the the country's image, the Times reports. More »

More about:  Italy • garbage • trash • Naples • landfill • Giorgio Napolitano

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