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Shirley Manson's voice sounds the same as when she first started with Garbage. At least I can't tell the difference. She gave a very nice performance.
La voz de Shirley Manson suena igual a la que tenía cuando empezó en Garbage. Por lo menos, no noto yo una diferencia. Ella dio una muy buena actuación.
When you buy 26 copies of the same CD single, eventually some will have to be put out :(
The next morning they were gone despite that the garbage man hadn't come yet... Someone thought they had value (LMAO)
I used to want to be a garbage man a long time ago. Years ago I think it would have been exciting to travel around collecting trash and looking through it to get free stuff when people threw away some really nice things they no longer wanted. It isn't like that anymore though.
Ran immediately into this pile of garbage and a ruined car the moment I walked out of my hostel my first morning in Catania. A start contrast to the beautiful skyline dominated by Mount Etna.
Garbage @Fabrique, Segrate Milano 09/06/2016
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This a garbage bin I found when i took my first step out of the school.I took this photo when we went on the walk by the klong.
Shirley Manson was all over the stage as she sang, but Steve Marker on guitar in this image was also quite active going from guitar to keyboard quite often during the same song.
Shirley Manson iba de un lado a otro en el escenario, pero Steve Marker también se movía mucho. En esta imagen toca la guitarra; sin embargo, en muchas canciones, iba de guitarra a su teclado muchas veces.
My first real wakeup call about trash in the modern world came when I visited the dump community, Payatas, in the Philippines.. I was, by that time, no longer a stranger to the breath-taking frankness of the hard knocks life in the so-called third world. But my visit to Payatas shocked me to the core. Metro Manila has several large (and I mean gigantic) municipal dumpsites, the largest of which is Payatas. It is not simply a landfill – a large hole in the ground where trash is deposited until its filled and which is then sealed over and planted with grass and forgotten. Payatas is the site of a large informal recycling community. Hundreds of families live around and on the dump and earn their living by waiting on top of the pile as the trucks come in and then sorting through the waste in search of valuable items.
Some basic facts: 150,000 people work on the dump, picking through their share of the 6,700 tons of garbage that Metro Manila produces daily. The city has ten such dumps, all over flowing, of which Payatas is the most widely known, due to a collapse in 2000 that killed 200 people. More than 400 trucks come to the 100 foot high mountain of trash every day bringing in 1.800 tons of trash in a 16 hour work day.
Payatas is the successor to Smokey Mountain, a still larger dump on the island of Luzon, which was home to the largest slum in Asia until it was forcibly cleared and the landfill closed by the Filipino government in November 1995. After the landslide at Payatas, the government attempted to close it too, but it was reopened at the demand of its workers, who are dependent on trash picking for their livelihood.
What happens to all that trash? “The bounty of the trucks is sifted and sorted by the scavengers, who pass it on to scrap shops specializing in copper wire, old newspapers, aluminum cans, plastic, cardboard bits of machinery, box springs, raffle tickets, tires, broken toys – virtually all the infinite components of civilized life.?
The people of Payatas were able to find a use for nearly everything that came off the trucks – all of it going off to be reused, melted down, composted, or who knew what – except the plastic bags.So in the end as you step across the ‘ground’ on the dump mountain looking down stories and across blocks to see the edges, what you’re standing on is mostly plastic bags. Bear in mind Manila is home to a society almost pathologically obsessed with plastic bags. If you buy something in a store, all other things being equal, you will walk out with at least three bags. In a grocery store all produce comes plastic wrapped, then is double bagged for you by a smiling attendant – who’s happy demeanor will turned to semi-horrified puzzlement should you attempt to refuse a bag. It seems to represent the pinnacle of modern, sanitary, western style living. So consequently they figure largely in the city’s trash. The man-made mountain of bags covers 22 hectares of land. It is awe inspiring. It is awesome. It is awful.
Visiting that dump community certainly made a big impression on me.
The trash community at Payatas in the Philippines is not an isolated incident. Similar “recycling? systems are in place all around the globe – anywhere the daily average wage is low enough to make garbage picking a viable livlihood. In Mexico City, these pickers are known as pependadores. In Cairo they are called Zabaline. The zabaline collect around a third of their city’s trash, of which they are able to redirect around 80%
I was THRILLED to see that all the waste bins at the MTCC offered options for paper, plastic, glass, and metal recycling, as well as organic waste disposal which is far less common but so important.
The problem came when I went to dispose of a non-recyclable plastic wrapper for a pin I was supposed to wear for the evening (it came in a clear plastic disposable baggie). These bins were the ONLY waste bins in the entire facility. My options? Paper (completely wrong). Organics (even more wrong). "Plastic, Glass, Metal" (presumably for recycling, which would exclude this package). I ended up leaving it on a table for the staff to remove, assuming they would put it in the garbage bin.
Which leaves me to wonder - what happens to all the non-recyclable or compostable items?? Do they get thrown into these bins and then not recycled? Or mixed in with the recycling to reduce the quality of the recyclables? Even some of the items in the picture - cutlery, for example - aren't actually recyclable... which begs the question, who are they trying to fool?