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The Garbage Game
Treehugger posts notice of the Garbage Game produced by The Gotham Gazette. You get to play at garbage commissioner and dig into the stinky reality of New Yorkers throwing away 64,000 tons of garbage a week, 7 billion pounds a year, for a billion dollars a year. You get to decide what to do with your empty water bottles, frayed towels, apple cores, the 3.6 million tons of diapers Americans throw away yearly. Where are you going to send your city's garbage? Next door? Overseas? Learn the consequences of your decisions. Best of all, play the game with your kids and enjoy the light in their eyes when they realize the effects of the profligate lifestyle you're generating on their behalf.
Julia Whitty is Mother Jones' environmental correspondent. You can read from her new book, The Fragile Edge,and other writings, here.
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New York is stupidly wasteful. Only place I've ever been that gives you a straw with a can of coke. And a stack of napkins when you order a coffee. What are they thinking?
As someone who remembers that in 1986, NYC sent a garbage barge out looking for a place to dump their trash, I am not surprised by this enormous issue. Staten Island is already the second highest point on the East Coast, even though the landfill is now closed. Trivia: In 1986, WBAB, a Long Island radio station, distributed Garbage Barge World Tour 1986 T-Shirts.
Posted by: Misanthropic Scott on 11/20/07 at 8:01 AM Respond
Welcome Back Kotter. (Sorry I had to say that; so much for free will.)
In response, I would say that I just got back from Georgia and Florida and saw exactly the same thing there. America is the land of the great waste and greater waists.
I would also say that residents of NYC do produce 1/3 of the carbon emissions of the rest of the country on average. So, maybe it's not all bad here in the city.
Posted by: Misanthropic Scott on 11/20/07 at 8:03 AM Respond
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Posted by: Kotter on 11/16/07 at 9:56 AM Respond