Saturday Special: Plastic, Trash, and Stuff

We've been talking trash again this week.  If you missed it, don't forget to read our interview with Kaveri Gill or our review of her important new book, Of Poverty and Plastic. (Find out how you might win a free copy of the book at the end of this post.)

Trashy links:

The Story of Stuff: The big picture, simply put.

Midway: plastic at sea. 
Plastic on your plates: is this green?




This is not green: broken ships at Alang. 
Pulitzer Prize winning series on ship breaking by Gary Cohn and Will Englund. 
William Langewiesche's article on ship breaking, originally published in The Atlantic.

Gas from Garbage: International Energy Agency report on getting methane from landfills in India. 
Can one American couple give up trash for a year?
Can bio gas help save Ranthambhore's tigers? 

What if a whole city turns out to be trash? Thanks to pRiyA at the (hibernating) Plum Tree for sending this story about the Darker Side of Dubai.
"Wonderland" of junk at The Plum Tree.
 

Trashy Dhaba leftovers, reheated: 
The Trouble with Trash (it's not just the condoms we should be worrying about)   
Floating Poison: The Platinum II is only a small part of a very dirty problem