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In America, particularly urban centers like Los Angeles and New York, garbage removal is an ever present problem. Mostly we’re worried about having too much trash and getting rid of the trash we generate. But in Oslo, Norway the city is faced with the complete opposite problem. Too little trash. From New York Times:  Oslo, […]

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Hoarding isn’t just a mental illness that destroy people’s lives, hoarding is a condition that destroys homes and kills. Hoarding can transform a beautiful home into a fire trap in a matter of months. When we clean out a hoarder home we commonly find newspapers and magazines stacked four feet high, mixed in with piles […]

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When it comes trash removal and trash pick up, Americans generate a lot of trash. The average person generates about 4.4 pounds of garbage per day, 29 pounds total per week, and 1,600 pounds of trash per year. That sounds like a shocking amount but if you think about the amount of trash you take […]

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