History
Nearly 4000 years ago there was a recovery and reuse system of bronze scrap in operation in Europe and composting was carried out in China.
http://www.wasteonline.org.uk/
Person
Queen Elizabeth I: in 1588 she granted special privileges for the collection of rags for papermaking.
Film
Burning the Rubbish (1903): silent movie showing (a scene) in life motion pictures of Galveston, Texas, after the tornado, which occurred during the summer of 1900.
Source: IMDb
Numbers
1: recycling one soft drink can saves enough energy to power a television for three hours. (Source: FYI, Page E8, Toronto Star, Sunday, April 12, 1998)
17 (approximately): the number of trees saved by recycling one tonne of newspaper. (Source: Toronto Environmental Handbook '99)
5,289: the number of nappies (diapers) that the average two-year-old Canadian baby has used. (Source: The Diaper Club pamphlet, Trademark of Knowaste Technologies)
400 million: amount of waste (in tonnes) produced in England and Wales every year.
Thing
Red wiggler worm (eisenia foetida)(commonly known as red wiggler, brandling, or manure worm): along with lumbricus rubellus one of the two types of earthworm best suited to worm composting.
http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormcomp61.html
Song
Rubbish by Luxuria
See lyrics
Recipe
"Trash Bag" Taco Salad
See recipe
Wordplay
Doublets: take two related words that have the same number of letters and convert the first into the second through a series of one letter changes, each of which must form another word. Proper names are not allowed, and all the words used must appear in the Cambridge Dictionaries Online.
Turn OLD into NEW in 11 changes. Go
Literature
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
See complete poem with notes
Date
3000 BC: In the Cretan capital, Knossos, the first recorded landfill sites were created where waste was placed in large pits and covered with earth at various levels.
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