A Year Of Trash Is…96 Cubic Feet of Packaging
Ari Derfel of Berkeley, California, saved his trash – including what he generated when he went out – for an entire year and ended up with a kitchen and then a living room full (96 cubic feet to be exact) of mostly food packaging, bits of paper, and the odd condom. He composted all his food scraps and over time, became obsessively careful about what he bought and consumed. As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, Derfel’s experiment was a vivid demonstration of the fact that while we throw away lots and lots of trash, much of it never really goes completely away.
One of the most interesting and thought-provoking results of Derfel’s experiment was his feelings around tra…
December 31 2007 01:12 pm | Environment
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