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Dumps and Landfills

Dumps and Landfills

Dumps. Landfills. Midden (in the olden days).  Why did anyone ever think it would be a good idea to throw all of our garbage in one big pile? Organic and inorganic matter mixed together with toxic chemicals, mixed with still useful building materials and furniture, mixed with "outdated" electronics and EVERYTHING else you can imagine. Within this subtopic of the website you will find upcycling innovations related to landfills and dumps. These heaps of "refuse" are now an indelible part of our lives, but how might we begin to salvage, reuse and even generate energy from the trash piled in landfills. Learn about garbage pickers in many parts of the world who make their living from salvaging useful things out of dumps; get ideas for how to make landfills more accessible to those interested in constructing out of waste; and explore the possibility that one day dumps and landfills may no longer be the only way of getting "rid of" our trash.


    • How Landfills Work Featured Resource How Landfills Work How Landfills Work

      This is a short video that explains the difference between a landfill and a dump and also explains briefly the process of capturing methane gas as bio-diesel. The town in Ontario... More »

    • Eco-Casas en el Basurero de Oaxaca Featured Gallery Eco-Casas en el Basurero de Oaxaca Eco-Casas en el Basurero de Oaxaca

      These are shots taken by SiKanda and friends during their recent collaboration with Techamos la Mano Oaxaca and other civil organizations in the city of Oaxaca. The purpose was... More »

    • Pam Longobardi, coastal Hero Featured Blog Pam Longobardi, coastal Hero Pam Longobardi, coastal Hero

       Time and attention get way too fragmented if you're not careful, especially in the Facebook Era. So I'm gonna protect my time and attention and just give you the link to a... More »

    • EVERYBODY Overwhelmed by RUBBISH Featured Blog EVERYBODY Overwhelmed by RUBBISH EVERYBODY Overwhelmed by RUBBISH

      Several months ago I clicked on a link in an e-mail entitled: “World Overwhelmed by Rubbish.” Up popped a photo essay from the Guardian UK that was actually entitled:... More »

    • Jo Hanson's dream come true Featured Blog Jo Hanson's dream come true Jo Hanson's dream come true

      That's a picture of Jo Hanson, the San Francisco activist (dead now) who founded the artists-in-residency program at the San Francisco dump. I posted about it on my blog, Visible... More »

    • How I fell in love with the dump . . . Featured Blog How I fell in love with the dump . . . How I fell in love with the dump . . .

      For a week in the summer of 2006 Jimmy Condon of the Shire (a learning center near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia) spent a week in Oaxaca, Mexico working with a group of innovative young... More »

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Visiting La Colonia Renacimiento Last Updated on 2011-10-09 at 17:20 This week I visited the dump. For all of my big talk about how much I love garbage and have a passion for trash, I am ashamed to say that I haven't been to a landfill since I was... More »
Eco-Casas en el Basurero de Oaxaca Last Updated on 2011-10-09 at 17:16 These are shots taken by SiKanda and friends during their recent collaboration with Techamos la Mano Oaxaca and other civil organizations in the city of Oaxaca. The purpose was... More »
Waste to Wealth Tour Last Updated on 2011-10-09 at 15:45 Conserve India is an industrious upcycling business formerly based in Delhi, but now located in Bahadurgarh, Haryana, India. The Upcycling Portal posted an article about their... More »
Pam Longobardi, coastal Hero Last Updated on 2010-02-20 at 08:23  Time and attention get way too fragmented if you're not careful, especially in the Facebook Era. So I'm gonna protect my time and attention and just give you the link to a... More »
The Story of Stuff gets BASHED Last Updated on 2009-10-02 at 11:32 Oh . . . I'm so mad I don't even know where to begin!!! Last week a friend of mine told me that this guy named Glenn Beck (who I suppose is some sort of Rush Limbaughian type) ran... More »
EVERYBODY Overwhelmed by RUBBISH Last Updated on 2009-08-04 at 16:14 Several months ago I clicked on a link in an e-mail entitled: “World Overwhelmed by Rubbish.” Up popped a photo essay from the Guardian UK that was actually entitled:... More »
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