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Take it to the dump this time!" he yelled. "Whatever," the man can be heard saying. Winberg, in a phone interview Wednesday, said he was both amused and disappointed that the water heater had resurfaced. He also said that while he doesn't really have time to deal with it again, it would be funny if it showed up anywhere else in town. At this point, Winberg said, a lot of people in Anchorage are keeping an eye out for it.Winberg spray-painted the tank red and wrote another note. (Chad Winberg photo)...
Objects from the Treasures in the Trash Museum in NYC Trash! Past, Present, & Future at the City Reliquary (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)From its bell jars containing Croton Aqueduct stalactites, to ephemera from the defunct Chinatown newsstand Petrella’s Point, Brooklyn’s City Reliquary is a shrine to New York artifacts that many would view as trash. In their current exhibition NYC Trash! Past, Present, & Future, curated by Bill Scanga, the nonprofit in Williamsburg is delving deeper into the city’s battle with its garbage.NYC Trash! Past, Present, & Future</em> at the City Reliquary" width="360" height="529" srcset="https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nyctrash4-360x529.jpg 360w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nyctrash4-720x1059.jpg 720w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nyctrash4-1080x1588.jpg 1080w, https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nyctrash4.jpg 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" />“NYC Trash Landmarks” map by Gina Kosty in NYC Trash! Past, Present, & Future at the City Reliquary“Today New York’s waste has no place within the city’s borders,” Robin Nagle, anthropologist-in-residence for New York City’s Department of Sanitation, states on one of the exhibition labels. “Garbage is sent by truck, train, and barge to states near and far.” Yet as NYC T...
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, especially at the City Reliquary in Williamsburg.The all-things-New York City museum is asking New Yorkers to get up close and personal with discarded belongings to show just how much we consume and what can be done about it. Historical photos and “artifacts,” like gritty bottles and old jewelry, will be on display for all to grimace at via an exhibit starting Thursday night.The first sight you’ll see when you walk into the Reliquary’s “NYC Trash!” is a wall depicting the history of garbage collection in the city, anchored by the words “Disgusting New York,” Bill Scanga, the curator and Reliquary’s board president, said.The wall will illustrate the long battle against the city’s infamous funk and squalor from when it got to be a real problem -- around the turn of the 20th century, Scanga said.A hand-drawn illustration sets the scene: A Harper’s Weekly magazine cover from 1891 depicts an old man sitting on top of city buildings, donning a crown made of a broken barrel, bottles and cans, and holding a trash can full of waste in one hand and a street cleaning depar...
Tulsa native and current resident of Houston, plans to build Morton’s Reserve, preserving the former hospital building for commercial/office and museum use, and adding two new buildings – one for office and commercial use and one for a three-story apartment building.Tulsa County purchased the Storey Wrecker site and plans to relocate its juvenile justice facility there. Demolition of the structure was recently completed, and the county has arranged for an environmental consultant to test for contaminants and prepare a remediation plan. Construction is estimated to begin in early 2018.A private foundation purchased the two properties at 36th Street North and Peoria Avenue that will become the Peoria-Mohawk Business Park. The properties have been cleaned up and are ready for development. Using $10 million in sales taxes, the city will provide infrastructure to subsidize this development.The remaining private sector brownfield properties, as well as other citywide sites, are eligible to use the city’s revolving loan fund, which began with a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. (Tulsa Beacon)
Curt Gowdy State Park visitor center, broom in hand. Now retired from the FBI, Deckett spends much of his time looking after museums and recreation sites like Curt Gowdy, where he had been volunteering since the beginning of July.“We just try to keep it nice, the best we can around here. It’s amazing how people can trash out a place,” Deckett said.And Deckett is not alone. Driving around the park, Assistant Superintendent Darrell Richardson told me Curt Gowdy depends on volunteers like Deckett.“Our volunteer program is one of the biggest things we have going for us around here,” Richardson said.During the summer, Richardson said, Curt Gowdy’s campsites are full. The trails are well trafficked. And for many people, disposables are part of the outdoor experience.“It’s primarily paper, you know, people come camping and they’re going to have paper and cardboard,” Richardson said. “And then there’s a lot of cans, and I’m sure plastic bottles because everybody’s all into drinking bottled water anymore.”Curt Gowdy employs only two full-time staff and two part-time staff. About 20 volunteers and a few seasonal workers do the rest of the work pic... (Wyoming Public Media)
