Gimme your gomi

[Stephi_B]

gomi = Japanese for trash/waste/garbage



*toast found gomi here*

[zero]

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cynthia vanderlip, manager of the state of hawaii's kure atoll wildlife sanctuary, cut open the dead body of a fledgling laysan albatross (nicknamed "shed bird") to find more than half a pound of plastic in its stomach.
concentrated below are all the items retrieved from inside the bird: plastic lighters, bottle caps, and other plastics that are carelessly tossed often wind up floating on the ocean surface, where they are occasionally consumed by foraging seabirds and other marine creatures.

[brightpearl]

^Odd, I came across this photo this morning:


I had been hoping that the odd collection of plastic bits had somehow collected there at high tide...but I thought not.

[Frieda]

wow. that's really sad

[T.I.P.]

Originally Posted by zero

the dead body of a fledgling laysan albatross

^ * Chuck Baudelaire shakes his fist at those who would fill the belly of the Poet with plastic *

Meanwhile, Vik Muniz demonstrates that you can make magic out of garbage:

Saturn


Cupid



Icarus

[Stephi_B]

Radiating gomi:

Concrete sarcophagus enclosing reactor #4 in Chernobyl

Gomi sculptures:

"Cologne people" by HA Schult

A way to get rid of gomi:

Left: A plasma torch gasifies municipal waste, which is used to power a steam turbine at Utashinai (Japan). Right: Principle behind it (Read more

[brightpearl]

Stephi, I nearly posted a pic of reactor 4 in the 80s thread last night (too depressing, I decided)...get out of my brain!

minimalist trash


minimall-ish trash architechture

[Stephi_B]

^Yes it is. Though I must say it was the first - and next to the fall of the Wall most influencial - global event experienced in my 80' s childhood (our region was also mediumly strong affected by fallout, we kids were not to play outside when it rained, the sandbox was taboo, we didn't eat any fruits/veggies from our garden etc. My colleague, who lived at the time in Minsk, Belarus, told me about how it was there, besides some squads washing the streets with a special foam - maybe twice - not much happened, although radiation levels were quite well known, everybody listened to Western radio, or let others fluent in English/German translate them the reports. For example people still ate their self-grown things, went for mushrooms to the woods etc.)

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Trailer trash - drawn pretty

[Brynn]

[Anna]

[Stephi_B]

'trash bag':

[T.I.P.]

it's too dirty in here

*sweep * *sweep * *sweep*

[brightpearl]

^underwear folder

[Earthling]

one mans garbage, is another mans spice

[Stephi_B]

Originally Posted by T.I.P.

it's too dirty in here

*sweep * *sweep * *sweep*

T.I.P.?? Where are you? You making a tea break?

Well, organized you a refuse lorry: