Landfill Diaries: On the Trail of Our Garbage

in August 2001, I started a regular commute from Palo Alto to San Francisco. The economy was in a shambles, traffic was light, and the weather was incredible that fall. Morning after morning, the dawn painted my mirrors in vivid colors on my way northwest on Highway 101. Coming across the rise at Sierra Point and heading onto the causeway that separates the Brisbane lagoon...     More

 

 
 

Landfill Diaries Blog
Interested in my developing thoughts about garbage. Then you might want to check out my garbage blog:
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Landfill Diaries

 

Where is my garbage?
Want to find out where your stuff ends up? If you live in California, it's not easy, but certainly possible. Check out the step-by-step instructions for locating it:
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Where is my garbage? (pdf)

 




San Francisco Bay (Garbage Map)
City Dump: Brisbane
Under the Wire: Oyster and Sierra Points
Study in Contrasts: Seaport Boulevard
Rock on Garbage: Bayfront Park
Salt Ponds: West of the Dumbarton Bridge
Landfill Sandwich: Cooley Landing
Land Art: Byxbee Park
Waystation: Sunnyvale Garbage Dump
Mt. Trashmore: Hayward Shoreline
Guadalupe: From Canyon to Sugar Loaf

Expeditions
Love Letters and Cabbage Leaves: Fresh Kills, NY
Soil Samples: Compton, CA
Old and New: Fort Bragg, CA

Trash Radio
Apprehensions for the spoken word, originally broadcast on KQED:
Time Capsules (February 6, 2008)
Hand over Your Garbage or I'll Shoot (July 10, 2007)
Human Garbage (April 12, 2007)

Apprehensions
Dilemma (January 20, 2008)
Museum of Buyer's Remorse (January 19, 2008)
Waste Age (May 20, 2007)
Analyzing Highway Trash (May 12, 2006)
Mr. Snyder and the Garbage Tax (Dec 30, 2006)
Imagining Climate Change (Dec 27, 2006)
Groping the Trash (Nov 11, 2006)
Time Capsules (July 11, 2006)
Waking up to Garbage (December 2005)
Sacred Garbage(Jan 26, 2002)

 
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