Thanks to an article in the Brooklyn Paper, I just discovered Everyday Trash, 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.

When my friends think of me, they think
of trash. They send me postcards of garbage dumps and email me links to
articles on the solid-waste industry. If they hear a story on the radio
or spot a television program mentioning trash, they call me. Sometimes
they even give me presents made from garbage. They do this because I am
a garblogger—someone who writes about garbage and posts those musings
on the Web. While I don’t presume to be the world’s first garblogger,
I’d like to think that if someone were to draft Wikipedia entries for
the terms garblog, garblogger, and garblogging, none would be complete without a link to my site, everydaytrash.

I
started everydaytrash in August 2006 to share with the world my wonky
fascination with the things people throw away, an interest developed in
journalism school while researching the politics of trash in New York
City. To me, trash was a political issue, and what interested me was
the enormous amount of money my city paid to export our trash to other
states.