everydaytrash
everydaytrash is a blog that examines the art and politics of the world through the lens of garbage. It is written by Leila Darabi, a Brooklyn-based journalist and nonprofiteer, who can be reached by email at leila DOT darabi AT gmail DOT com. Suggestions for future posts and tips on upcoming events in the world of trash are welcome. Facebook members can fan the blog here.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 9:27 am
[...] Garblogging can be a thrilling pastime, but I couldn’t do it without your encouragement and active participation. Thanks to all who have been clicking through as I’ve launched everyday trash these past couple of weeks, thanks to the artists whose work I’ve been reposting and thanks especially to the peanut gallery for the snarky commentary. Please, please, keep it coming! [...]
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Hi Leila,
Welcome to the green blogging world! Love the concept of everyday trash and look forward to reading your posts.
Best,
Stephanie Z.
Fabulously Green
Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 5:48 am
Thanks for the kind words, Stephanie and for keeping fabulously green on the fun yet informative side (and not the wonky and unreadable side) of this serious subject! I’m a fan.
Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 11:09 pm
I just discovered your blog, and am a new fan. I’m adding it to my blog’s links and am subscribing to its feed. Nice to “meet” someone else crazed about trash! LOL Come by my blog sometime — I only have a couple of waste pieces on it so far because I just started recently, but plan a ton on the issue in the near future.
Best Regards,
Keith R
Friday, September 22, 2006 at 7:03 am
Thanks, Keith. As you can tell, I found your blog and am likewise a fan. Thanks for shedding light on a part of the world we should all know more about!
Monday, February 5, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Leila, thanks for sending me to the “landfile”. Q: Is it true that years ago, during an NYC garbage collectors’ strike, people gift-wrapped their trash and left the presents on their front steps for soon-to-be-disappointed theives?
Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Hmm, I’ll have to look into that one!
Saturday, February 10, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Hi Leila - Finally got a chance to get back to you! Thanks for the link to Greenloop. We will be adding Everday Trash to the Greenloop Blog as it looks like you have a great blog going here on an important issue. I will be sure to check in on it regularly. Keep talking “trash”!
Best,
Aysia
Saturday, February 10, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Thanks Aysia–for the link, and for the eco fashion tips!
Monday, April 30, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Not sure if news has crossed the pond yet but we finally have a town in the UK going plastic bag free!
Modbury in the sunny county of Devon, we salute you.
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,2067577,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=11#article_continue
Cheers
Tom
Bring Your Own Bag Campaign
http://www.hovis21.com
Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Rock on, thanks for sharing!
Friday, May 18, 2007 at 8:36 pm
“garblogging” - hilarious - I love the sense of humor you bring to this subject matter!
Friday, May 18, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Thanks, Max. I’m looking forward to your show.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 5:04 pm
LEILAAAAAAA
Hope all is well with you!!!
nice website dude!!!!! Soraya gave you a shout out on her gmail away message and I just checked it out.
super cool
Thursday, June 28, 2007 at 9:44 am
Thanks, Andrea!
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 8:07 pm
the piece on the recycled car hood etc. ampithetre in san fran is inspiring!
Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Great blog!
If the economics don’t work, recycling efforts won’t either.
As our little contribution to make this economics of recycling more appealing, http://LivePaths.com blogs about people and companies that make money selling recycled or reused items, provide green services or help us reduce our dependency on non renewable resources.
PS How can we trade links back to our blogs?
Friday, August 31, 2007 at 8:14 am
Hola Luis,
Consider the trade in effect, I’ll post your link now. Thanks for stopping by and sharing your resource!
Leila
Friday, September 7, 2007 at 12:09 am
Great blog! Thanks for the inspiration, passion and effort!
Friday, September 7, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Thanks, Michael! I hope to feature your stuff soon, it’s beautiful!
Friday, September 21, 2007 at 5:38 pm
A new reader. Awesome topic! A few months ago, I heard that environmentalist David Suzuki’s family produces 1 bag of garbage a month and I thought it was impossible. Late in the scene of drastically reducing garbage, I am still happy that my family is doing it now. After starting food composting, we went from 1&1/2 bags down to 3/4 bag a week. The shocking discovery is that most of our trash now is in some form of plastic.
Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Thanks for reading and commenting, Cindy. Keep of the great work. That’s well under the amount of trash my household produces!
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 9:28 am
Just wanted to say thanks to Leila for the great blog. Been fascinated with trash ever since I can remember, and now I can just come here instead of doing Google news search for “garbage” (I do recommend that to all you trashies, though!). I bet I know just as much about trash as any garbologist with credentials, and hope I can offer a unique point of view on the subject, as my views offen differ from the norm, though it does seem many people are waking up to the futility of a lot of recycling…(source reduction, source reduction!) See you at the landfill!
DumpsterTaoist
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 9:41 am
Thanks, DT! I’m proud to count trashperts among my readers. I second the rec to all trashies to Google “garbage” now and again for a sense of the vast variety of ways trash plays a role in our lives around the world. To compile the “Weekly Compactor” posts, I start by doing Google news searches for “garbage,” “trash,” and “rubbish” and supplement the results with tidbits sent in by tipsters as well as Waste News and other industry headlines.
Leila
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 10:05 am
Hehe, “trashpert”, love it… Next time a cop finds me in a skip and asks me what I’m doing fishing things like televisions and beautiful Chinese art prints out of the trash, I’ll tell him I’m just a trashpert and that’ll explain it! And oh yeah, always looking for stories/information about Japanese trash and the crazy culture that surrounds it…maybe some pictures/stories about “Gomi Rooms” would be a nice addition to the site if you haven’t got some already….ya probly do, I’ll look…
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I just featured you in my blog, as one of “My 15 Favorite Green Chicks Blogs”
La Marguerite
http://lamarguerite.wordpress.com
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 5:38 am
Wow, that’s quite an honor. Thank you! I can’t wait to discover the rest of the lineup!
Friday, October 12, 2007 at 9:42 pm
A little something to pass around for the Environment Blog Action Day, 10/15/7:
Being pro-environment has become all the rage with major corporations, but how real is their GREEN branding? Take a couple of minutes to watch the “Greed of Green”
@ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QDyZutvt_A and go to http://www.DontFlushOurForests.com for more videos. See a very personal way most of us can make a difference with the added benefit of improved hygiene.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Dig the site!
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Thanks, and I yours!
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Hi there!
Hope all is well in your blogging world! Just wanted to give you an updated address for my site on your Green Bloggers blogroll. Fabulously Green can now be found at http://fabgreen.com.
Best wishes,
Stephanie
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Hi Leila,
Just wanted to let you know that you have a great site, and I appreciate the link to Green Student U on your blogroll. I’ve added your link to my blogroll here:http://www.greenstudentu.com/resources.aspx.
Keep up the great work!
Sincerely,
Trish
Monday, March 31, 2008 at 3:58 am
Hi Leila
I just discovered your blog. Love what you are doing
I am an American artist and writer living in Paris. My major project is painting and photographing the streetcleaners of Paris.
Thought you would be interested in my site.
http://petitshommesverts.free.fr
Feel free to make a post
cheers
Douglas
Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Agree with everyone! Great blog. I just wanted you to know I uploaded a post of
yours onto http://sustain.newsladder.net/ (like Digg but centered around
sustainability).
Take care,
klara
Monday, April 14, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Thanks for the shout out, Klara!
Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 11:03 pm
hi! thank you so much for letting people know what is really going on with the environment. My best friend and i have always been in love with the environment and doing our best to save it. we’ve been waiting for a long time to find people to help. thank you!
sophie taylor(10 years old)
Friday, May 2, 2008 at 11:49 am
Leila,
Great blog! (Isn’t it crazy that people can go their WHOLE lives and never the thought enters their mind - about what they are wasting? Just crazy.)
Thank you for inspiring this thought and greener living.
You should check out http://www.changingthepresent.org/registries. A new nonprofit site were couples, rather than registering for a third blender they don’t want - can register to preserve an acre of wilderness, provide care for an infant chimpanzee, or fund research. You will love it.
Please take a quick look! Thanks,
Katelyn
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 2:47 am
Hi Leila. I love everydaytrash. I have always been obsessed with trash partly because of it’s odd beauty (especially when it is repurposed for something else) and partly because I have gallons of anxiety about how much trash we are creating. I have a side trash project that I am working on. Maybe it is something you would be interested in? Keep up the great work! Woolly M.
Friday, May 16, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Thanks Woolly M., I’m a new fan! And I am definitely interested in any and all trash side projects!
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 8:01 am
Love your site. Trash is cartainly a challenge. Last year decided I would boycott the non biodegradable stuff- plastic packaging, bags, bottles and stupid free coat hangers that snap before you get home. Each month I veto a plastic/plastic packed product and substitute a better packaged, more sustainable, biodegradable sometimes, as needs must, home made options. My bin is so empty - yes indeed it the sound of my own trumpet..
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 8:03 am
For non plastic products / alternatives go to my blog http://www.plasticisrubbish.wordpress.com
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 8:12 am
Trashtastic, I look forward to reading it!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Wonderful to find yet another garblogger! You’ve built up a fabulous resource of garbage references. Keep it coming!
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 12:06 am
Right back atcha, sister. I can’t believe I haven’t seen your site until now!
Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 7:00 am
I L-O-V-E this site!!! It’s incredible- all the articles and photos. I saw a photo last week and i am SEARCHING for it.. i thought it was on your site but can’t find it. It’s of a little boy, wearing a blue plastic shopping bag as a little jumper. it’s a very powerful image, and i want to use it in a project i’m working on. i’m sure you’re really busy but i would love some help on this one. either way, thanks for all the great info and keep up the good work!
Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 10:16 am
Thanks for the compliments! I don’t think you saw that image here, but please let me know if you find it (I’ll do the same).
Leila
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 6:56 pm
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Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Thanks for the info!