Rubbish Archive

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    Dangerous sea species - by frog



    As a follow up to the regular stories about the plastic gloop that is taking up a space in our oceans twice the size of the United States a reader just sent me a link to this European poster campaign: read more
    October 28, 2008 12:30 pm - 6 Comments
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    Pahaoa River - by frog



    Russel continued his campaign to clean up our waterways yesterday.  This time he popped up on Campbell Live to highlight a South Wairarapa farm that had turned some of its land beside a creek into a rubbish dump littered with also sorts of debris including containers that had once stored hazardous material.  The creek flows [...] read more
    June 19, 2008 12:19 pm - 19 Comments
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    Metiria on Close Up - by frog



    Close Up featured Metiria last night being put through her recycling paces (all five of them that it took her to walk to the paper recycling bin).  Then Rodney Hide came on to complain that it was all too much work and he had more important things to do.  Isn’t  it ironic (as Dangermoose noted) [...] read more
    June 12, 2008 8:38 am - 27 Comments
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    Barking mad - by frog



    Rodney Hide and friends are apparently rebelling over their new parliamentary recycling bins and rubbish cubes: ACT leader Rodney Hide said it was an example of the “nanny state gone barking mad”. In an e-mail over-riding their protests, ACT staff were told to prepare for an hour-long “changeover”, an operation that was conducted with military [...] read more
    June 11, 2008 9:54 am - 23 Comments
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    Giant plastic soup floats out to sea - by frog



    The Independent has an early contender for grossest news of the year when it reports on a “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean.  Scientists say that it is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States. Mr Moore, a former sailor, came [...] read more
    February 11, 2008 12:02 pm - 19 Comments
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    Naples’ streets of rubbish - by frog



    I haven’t written about the two metre high piles of rubbish in the streets of Napoli until now.  Aside from the Mafia involvement, the likelihood of the Italian government collapsing and the incredible visual images of a city slowly being buried in its own waste, my abiding impression is of a metaphor for the natural [...] read more
    January 22, 2008 4:15 pm - 6 Comments