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Lea & Perrins Original Recipe Discovered

Find sheds light on Worcestershire's long-secret flavors

Nov 4, 09 4:22 PM CST
(Newser) - What looks to be the original and long-secret recipe for Lea and Perrins legendary Worcestershire Sauce has been found. A woman in England discovered it among her late father's leather-bound notebooks. He worked as an accountant for Lea and Perrins and found the 19th-century document in the trash at the... More »

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food • United Kingdom • England • trash • recipes • documents • condiment • Worcestershire Sauce • Lea and Perrins

FORECLOSURE FRONTLINES

 Don't Hate Me: 
 I'm Just Here 
 to Clean Up 

Clearing the detritus of owners' dreams from bank-owned homes

Sep 30, 09 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cindy Reid doesn’t want you to think she and her boss—and boyfriend—are the “bad guys.” But it is difficult when her man is the one “you never want to see pull up to your house. He has eyes that go flat when you offer ... More »

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trash • foreclosure • recession • bank • homeownership • cleaning • vacant homes • repossessions • repo men

 Egypt Kills All Pigs— 
 But Pigs Eat All Trash 

With no swine to eat garbage, waste piles up on city streets

Sep 20, 09 12:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - When the Egyptian government decided to kill all of Cairo’s pigs last spring in a pre-emptive measure to combat swine flu, they apparently forgot that the pigs performed a vital function in a city with poor public services: eating trash, the New York Times reports. The zabaleen, Cairo’s... More »

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trash • garbage • public health • Egypt • Cairo • Christians • swine flu

 America's Worst 
 Recycling Cities 

Cities who divert the least from landfill named and shamed

May 13, 09 6:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - The average American city recycles about a third of its waste, but the lack of any unified national standard for trash disposal means some cities rate way, way, below average. Mother Jones lists those with the biggest trash piles:
  • Oklahoma City recycles only 3% of its waste. Households have
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recycling • trash • landfill • garbage • cities • Oklahoma City

McAuliffe Tack: Virginia Is for Garbage Lovers

He's leading Dem race for governor with new zeal for solid waste

Mar 20, 09 10:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - For Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic party chief turned Virginia gubernatorial candidate, the way to Old Dominion’s heart runs through trash. “I love trash," he tells Dana Milbank of the Washington Post. "I love chicken litter, cow manure, garbage. This is the kind of thing that... More »

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trash • landfill • Virginia • Terry McAuliffe • governor

(Newser) - The current recession was fairly clear to a certain segment of the population as far back as late 2007, the Washington Post reports—landfill operators. Since then, dumps and garbage collectors have seen a steep drop-off in trash—in some cases up to 30%—along with their own jobs.... More »

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trash • landfill • garbage • waste • recession • consumer spending • packaging

OPINION

 Time to Clean Up Space Trash 


Feb 22, 09 5:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Space trash is becoming a serious problem, and it's long past time for housekeeping, writes the Economist. Of the 18,000 objects orbiting earth that are bigger than 4 inches across, only 900 are functioning satellites. The rest is debris, from old rocket parts and dead satellites to tools and... More »

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space • trash • satellite • littering • orbit • spy satellite • reconnaissance satellite • junk

(Newser) - In the wake of two satellites colliding this week—and debris apparently falling on several states—Wired runs down a list of objects we've lost in outer space:
  • A spatula: Used to apply heat-shield repair goo, the implement's loss was a blow to one astronaut. "That was my
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trash • International Space Station • space travel • spacewalk • orbit • space debris • detritus • tool bag

Colo. Resort Town Mulls 'Pay as You Throw' Trash Plan

Vail program would encourage recycling

Feb 2, 09 1:28 PM CST
(Newser) - A Colorado resort town is trying out a newer, greener trash collection program, the Denver Post reports. The new “pay-as-you-throw” system would charge residents of Vail based on how much junk they throw away each week, but provide curbside recycling for free. More »

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recycling • trash • Aspen • Colorado • resorts • Vail

 After Historic Day, 
 Historic Cleanup 

Trash-bin shortage caused tons of litter to pile up

Jan 22, 09 11:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Crews working into the wee hours hauled away at least 130 tons of garbage after America’s largest, and messiest, outdoor bash Tuesday, the Washington Post reports. With trashcans removed for security precautions, inauguration attendees littered the National Mall, leaving it looking like a rendition of Disney's Wall-E. Obama gear,... More »

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Washington DC • trash • garbage • National Mall • inauguration • President Obama • Inauguration Day

Recession Has US Recycling Industry in Dumpster

Scrap fetching a fraction of the price it used to—if it's not cheaper to send it to landfills

Dec 8, 08 8:55 AM CST
(Newser) - With the economy tanking, recyclable material is selling like, well, trash. Mixed paper, which sold for $105 per ton as recently as October, now fetches $20-$25, the New York Times reports. “It’s awful,” said one recycling rep, who says her yard is packed with refuse that can’... More »

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China • environment • recycling • trash • financial crisis

 Backstage Tour Lays 
 Bare Springer Nation 

Campy disasters inspire schadenfreude

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... More »

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television • trash • talk show • talk-show host • Jerry Springer • television personality

 Britons: New Trash 
 Laws Are Rubbish 

Controversial UK measures get tough on waste

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,... More »

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environment • recycling • trash • garbage • Britain

 Trash Fires Blaze Across Naples 

Firefighters working overtime as angry residents burn excess garbage

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... More »

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Italy • trash • garbage • Naples • fire

 Trash Fouls World's Beaches 

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

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,"... More »

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environment • pollution • beach • trash • littering • Ocean Conservancy

 Got Junk? Call These Guys 

Company turns trash into profit

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... More »

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trash • garbage • innovation • clutter • junk • 1-800-GOT-JUNK

Plasma May Zap City's Garbage Crisis

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

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... More »

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energy • trash • landfill • garbage • waste • Vancouver • plasma gasification • Plasco

Mountain of Litter
Spoiling Everest Majesty

Peak draws hundreds of climbers, who leave behind trash

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.... More »

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pollution • trash • Mount Everest • Edmund Hillary • climbing

Trash Overwhelms Naples

Italian Army struggles to bulldoze
massive heaps of garbage

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... More »

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Italy • trash • Naples

One Man’s Garbage Is Another's Thanksgiving

Movement fights waste by foraging for food

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,... More »

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food • New York City • trash • lifestyle • Thanksgiving • vegan • freegan • Madeline Nelson

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