Bright red and bigger than a car, these 16-foot by 6-foot bastions of mobile greenery provide little bits of shade and park bench-style seating for passersby at the expense of a parking space (which is kind of the idea). These mobile dumpster parks that have started sprouting up around the San Fransisco city lately.

Maybe this “garden rental” is something we should look at offering?

[LA Times via neatorama via Gizmodo]

Artist Gregory Kloehn has an interesting project. He took a dumpster, used some ingenuity and turned the metal container into a home.

Once you get over the fact that it’s a dumpster, the living quarters are not that bad. The dumpster is small but it’s outfitted with cabinets, a cooking surface, electricity, and all the other basic amenities needed to survive. It even has granite countertops and a hard wood floor. Not too shabby. [YouTube via LikeCool and Nick McGlynn via Gizmodo]

Have you ever thought about how long the stuff you throw away would take to decompose?

It is surprising to know that some of our everyday items may take up to more than 1,000 years to decompose. In fact, some may not decompose at all!

That’s why it is best to recycle these instead of throwing them to the landfill.

Source: http://socyberty.com/issues/strange-trash-facts/

Now you have one more reason to rent dumpsters, especially for the hot summer days.

The Brooklyn swimming pool, dubbed the “lo-fi country club” by Macro Sea, is an impressive first step. The pool took 12 days to construct. The dumpsters, which weren’t being used because of the slow down in construction projects, were cleaned and painted. Rough edges were sanded down. They were then equipped with plastic liners, sandbags (for soft walking), and tarps before being filled with 19,000 gallons of chlorinated water.

Source: http://green.yahoo.com/blog/greenpicks/248/swimming-pool-made-from-dumpsters.html

This adds one new definition to “dumpster diving”

Recycling - How do they do it?

Watch it on YouTube

How does a floating garbage patch three times the size of Spain and Portugal combined together sound to you?

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch illustrates how bad a problem garbage that is improperly disposed of can lead to.

Moral of the story: always dispose of your rubbish the proper way.

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The average closed landfill in the U.S. generates 6 million gallons of contaminated water from rainfall that seeps through the landfill picking up chemicals and compounds along the way each and every year. This contaminated water ends up in our groundwater. It also affects the surrounding plant life and animal life as the surrounding soil is contaminated. Additionally, the volatile compounds that evaporate up through the soil and into the air affect the health of the surrounding residents. Once we have emptied the landfill all of these issues go away. Human health, plant health, animal health, and the condition of the soil and groundwater all improve. Check out what you can do to help by visiting this blog….www.greenusarecycling.com/empty-your-landfill

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