Fry Power

Carl’s Jr. uses veggie oil collected from the fast food chain’s restaurants to run five of 20 corporate vehicles and plan to get the other 15 running on reused oil in the next few years. While this is good news and all, I’m not sure it cancels out the evil of 1) the existence of a fast food chain or 2) that nasty Paris Hilton add, let’s hope this serves as a model for other oil-chugging chains to think about closing the loop.

This is a blog about trash.

This is a blog about Oscar the Grouch. It’s about the smoke of burning trash piles wafting through every developing country in the world. It’s about the billions of dollars a year spent exporting garbage from one state to another. It’s about diving into a dumpster and coming up with a still-warm burger and three packets of mustard. It’s about detonating landmines with old truck tires and building bookshelves out of milk crates. It’s about barges. It’s about battery acid. It’s about paying sixty bucks for a change purse made of soda can tabs because the label says a women’s group in Latin America glued them together. It’s about sorting plastics. It’s about beaches built on landfills and landfills built on beaches. It’s about the “away” in throw away and the “out” in toss out and the “rid” in get rid of it. This is a blog about the art, money, power, politics, people and literature of garbage. It’s a subject that shocks and amuses me nearly every day, which is about how often I imagine I’ll be posting. I hope you’ll share in the fascination.