The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or GPGP for short, isn't exactly what you might have heard. It's not a floating garbage land-mass twice the size of Texas that you can settle, even though it kind of ...

It may seem contradictory that Rio de Janeiro's largest landfill is called Jardim Gramacho (Gramacho Garden). But spend some time there, thanks to the documentary "Waste Land," and you start to get ...

On Lawrence Rainey’s scholarly new edition of The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose. Most innovatively, Rainey includes ten prose pieces that Eliot published during the composition ...

For more than 50 years, the communities of Los Angeles County have sent their household and commercial refuse to the Puente Hills Landfill in Whittier, one of the largest public dumps in the country.

Some years ago, I was editing a newspaper in Mumbai and we ran a report on the city’s eternal garbage problem. The report mentioned a prime spot in the suburbs where a mountainous garbage landfill was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASTE LAND, filmed over three years, follows artist Vik Muniz from Brooklyn to Brazil's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho.

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