Mister Trash Can

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Mister Trash Can

Video by: Morgan Currie , Chad Colby, Garrett Morin, MacKenzie Fegan, Rus Garofalo, Lindsay Utz | Music by: Audio Dregs Recordings

Posted: January 21, 2009 at 9:37 pm

While carbon emissions may be the current cause célèbre of the environmental movement, let’s not forget the more tangible waste products we are unleashing upon the earth. Annually, households and businesses throw out 251 million tons of trash. And while, not shockingly, the major offenders are industries such as mining, everyday American consumers are responsible for five pounds of trash a day. We’re resolving to watch our wastelines in 2009.

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DISCUSSION: 9 Comments

- Posted by: Beth Stone
- on January 21, 2009 at 10:23 pm
um, i love this
- Posted by: Atley Kasky
- on January 22, 2009 at 1:05 am
moar of these pls!
- Posted by: RogerNumbers
- on January 22, 2009 at 9:01 am
Dear Video,

Where do I send my money for my talking trash can?

Thank you,
Roger

PS You are weird and terrific.
- Posted by: Anonymous
- on January 24, 2009 at 12:29 am
These are great, but offer no solutions, just awareness. I know there is not a simple solution, but offering some suggestions one can do would be helpful. I love them anyway.
- Posted by: ives
- on January 25, 2009 at 9:41 pm
hooray!
- Posted by: hedjunta
- on January 27, 2009 at 1:16 pm
2nd biggest export to China !?! that’s astounding.. Where else do we send our trash?
- Posted by: Anonymous
- on February 11, 2009 at 4:16 pm
What I want to know is, what are we going to do when China and India wise up and don’t let us dump there anymore? We really need to resolve the issue BEFORE that happens.
- Posted by: Anonymous
- on April 20, 2009 at 5:37 pm
I live in New Orleans and they no longer offer recycling pickup, and my parents wont pay $15 a month for Phoenix recycling, so yea…
- Posted by: AnthonyWhitehurst
- on October 16, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Surprising and also simultaneously not surprising at all. I wonder what percentage of trash is food packaging, there is so much of it that is not recyclable.

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GOOD

Hi, we're GOOD. We hope you are too.
Morgan Currie
Chad Colby
Garrett Morin

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MacKenzie Fegan
Rus Garofalo

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Lindsay Utz

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Audio Dregs Recordings

Audio Dregs is a record label and art collective equally in love with experimentation and melody. Artists that have provided music for Good features include Copy, Melodium, E*Rock, Dim Dim, Global Goon, and The Sensualists.