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The article reports on the impact of scavengers on the recycling programs in New York City. It states that scavengers are trying to make cash targeting New York City's (NYC) curbside recycling program, depriving the valuable material and complicating operations. In response, it indicates that the NYC officials passed a law mandating that anyone caught stealing recyclable products out on the curb using a vehicle can have their vehicle impounded and be fined for 2000 dollars.

The article reports that Beauty and cosmetics brand, The Body Shop has partnered with Plastics for Change India Foundation to launch Project Nutrition, Ability, Retraining and Inclusion (NARI). Topics include that NARI is an initiative to support female waste pickers; and that the project is designed to address the economic and social issues that female waste workers face.

The article presents photographs submitted by readers of "National Geographic" magazine of subjects including photographer Alexei Aliyev's mother holding a turkey in Nizhiniy Tagil, Russia, snow blowing off the Matterhorn mountain in Switzerland, and trash sorters at the Dandora dump in Nairobi, Kenya.

The author reflects on an article by Vella Atienza which discussed the significant role played by the informal sector in solid waste management in developing countries, with particular focus on cases in the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries. The author believes that the article may have been more persuasive if it recognized the devastating condition involving scavengers/pickers. He also cites other related references Atienza should further consider.

The article focuses on trash banking on the impoverish Makassar city in eastern Indonesia.

The article looks at the working conditions of garbage collectors in India in 2007. It is stated that despite of the creations of jobs, only 10 percent of the country's population are employed in the technology and service industries. Those belonging to the marginalized groups work as ragpickers. In October, the government has agreed to supply protective gloves, boots and aprons to about 6,000 garbage collectors. Reportedly, waste collectors are also demanding for more significant support like a salary, health care and decent housing.

The article profiles Benjamin Singleton, who was born a slave in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1809. He ran away to "Canada West" while still a young man, and soon crossed back over into the U.S. to Detroit, Michigan. The article reports that after making a living for some time as a scavenger, he found a job running a boarding house where most of his guests were runaway slaves. He remained in the North until the Civil War ended, in 1865.

Provides information on mountain scavenging, a popular pastime of scavengers in ski towns. INSET: Bingo!.

The article presents information about an exhibition that will be held through February 13, 2005 at New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. At this exhibition, one can have a glimpse of the artistic sense of the Aztecs who dominated central Mexico in the 15th and early 16th centuries. The exhibition offers many striking pieces of cultural scavenging, such as Olmec warrior's cuirass of oyster shell and mother of pearl, circa 900-1200, and a vital Teotihuacán funerary mask.

Presents the poem "Creatures of the Night," by Michele Tennant.

Presents the poem "As Usual," by Jesse Weiner.

Focuses on programs designed to help scavengers organize themselves into cooperatives. Latin American cooperatives; Scavengers cooperatives in Asia; Support extended by governments and non-governmental organizations.

Reports on the formation of cooperatives by scavengers and waste collectors in Colombia. Competition with private companies; Merits and statistics of scavenging and scavengers in Columbia; Assistance of nongovernment organizations for scavengers to form cooperatives; Markets and materials for scavengers and co-ops; Diversification of activities; Effects of scavenger privatization efforts; Problems faced by co-ops.

Four-time Ironman triathlete Atwood (Triathlon for the Every Woman) calls out habits of lying, people pleasing, self-shame, and perfectionism, among others, as unproductive "nonsense" in this lively testament. Atwood's brisk, humorous, and often profane writing style suits the subject matter well. The book's numerous parenthetical asides and metaphors - the "Truth Onion", the "Yard Sale Life", the "One Nonsense Thing" - sometimes slow the pacing, but the short chapters and checkpoints help cement key concepts. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on the commercial food waste diversion program offered by the city of Orlando, Florida to businesses through which they can save dumpster fees by sending their food waste to Harvest Energy Garden facility at the Reedy Creek treatment plant in Florida.

The article focuses on several people who have been successful in the field of agriculture, fishing and fish farming India. Topics discussed include Akshay Verma, Founder of Agratam India Foundation, who converted unproductive wasteland into fish farms; initiative to conserve mangrove forests through crab farming by Anil Kumar, deputy director, Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA); and provision of leftover food to ragpickers by Vivek S. Agrawal, Founder Annakshetra Foundation.

Relates that Muslim refugees near Tuzla, Bosnia depend for sustenance on garbage from the US Army base in Tuzla. Photograph of refugees going through the garbage being unloaded by a truck.

Discusses the important role of ragpickers in recycling textile waste. Background on ragpicking during the 19th and early 20th centuries; Markets for the category of rags called `thirds-and-blues'; Factors that caused the decline of using and picking rags; Uses of post-consumer textile waste; Amount of textile waste excavated by the Garbage Project; Clothing industry's efforts to recycle rags.

Profiles Lorin Bergman, a self-described scavenger of high-technology disposed materials in Silicon Valley, California. Amount of product paraphernalia accumulated in the high technology industry due to the high rate of failure; Comments from Bergman on potential to render gain from failure; Working process of recycling used by Bergman; Role of auctions in selling the disposed materials by scavengers; List of customers made by Bergman to sell his product lines; Details of his work day and the recycling of the products.

The article explores the significant contributions of waste pickers in the society. It cites the study conducted by global research policy network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) which supports its contributions if the local governments will not hinder their work. Gino Van Begin of international association International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) highlights the significance of waste pickers in waste segregation.

The article reports that several trash pickers in Brazil including Elaine da Silva Moraes, collect thrash from the Carnival, the country's biggest party, for reuse and recycling.

The article focuses on India's informal economy and the difficulty Indian cities have had in reforming its solid waste management system. It mentions India's waste management system which uses ragpickers to recycle waste and comments on its inefficiency. It states that India's municipal governments are responsible for solid-waste management and talks about the difficulty Delhi has had in finding new landfills due to legal challengers from ragpickers and local residents.

The article offers information on the community outreach programs of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) across the National Capital Region in India. It highlights how the programs which was started in 2007 have impacted the lives of the students. One of the programs is Project Azmat which provides alternative sustainable livelihood to scavengers.

The article examines a trend in which municipal governments in developing countries are formalizing scavenging as a waste management technique by paying scavengers for their services.

The article offers the author's views on the impact of privatisation of waste in Delhi, India on the livelihood of waste pickers. It highlights projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Rural Mission to collect waste in the region, which was objected by residents and environment groups. According to the author, such regime jeopardises the livelihood of waste pickers and favours waste disposal, not recycling.

The poem "The Scavenger" is presented. First Line: Squat, short-haired cur, fur; Last Line: as part of the spoils.

The article reports that Zimbabwe President and anti-gay leader Robert Mugabe is said to have been furious over the use of pink-colored rubbish bins throughout Bulawayo.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of going to Manila, Philippines to document the lives of trash scavengers through photographs.

The article offers information on a recent study conducted by the IES Management College and Research Centre in Mumbai, according to which ragpickers have refused to collect polythene plastic bags as the prices fetched for it were too less.

An image of "Scavenger," an oil painting on canvas by Hickory Mertsching is presented.

The article reports on the Israeli military's shooting of young Palestinian men and boys who have been scavenging through piles of rubbles on the 300-meter security zone between the Gaza boundary fence and northern Gaza. Figures show that at least 25 Gazans have been killed and 146 have been wounded in the buffer zone since the end of Operation Cast Lead. The United Nations for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) points out the uncertainty and lack of clarity regarding the precise boundaries of the restricted areas.

We put our paper, plastic and other recyclables in city-issued containers in our backyard and move them to the curb for weekly pickup through our town's recycling program. A scavenger regularly removes cans and bottles, presumably to redeem for cash. I say that by depriving the city of these items, he adds to our recycling costs. I want to ask the police to apprehend the ''thief.'' My wife says I lack compassion.You?J.M., BURLINGAME, CALIF. It would take a colder heart than mine to call the cops on someone so needy that he survives by scavenging garbage. To focus your crime-busting on the poorest of the poor shows curious priorities. Are there no BP execs, no Goldman Sachs plutocrats, no producers of ''Sex and the City 2'' ? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses waste disposal and management in Colombia. The country's Constitutional Court has given legal status to the poor people who scavenge through the refuse dumps and trash bins of its cities, allowing them to organize as cooperative societies to bid on municipal waste management contracts.

The article reports on Indiana University student Mikey Brooks, who has taken bargain-hunting to new heights. While some people are thrilled just to find food on sale, Brooks knows how to get it for free. Brooks is a "Freegan," a nickname for a group of hardcore scavengers who dig their sustenance out of grocery-store and restaurant dumpsters. He began years ago as a homeless teenager. The haul of palatable food they could obtain from a single night of scrounging was mind-boggling.

The article presents a photograph depicting a boy picking through a garbage pile looking for trash that can be sold for recycling in Delhi, India.

The article reports that the poorest residents of Managua, Nicaragua, eke a living out of the city dump. The salvaging of materials for recycle had been the primary revenue source for the scavengers. By 2008 high prices for commodities world-wide cause garbage haulers to comb through refuse before dumping. The reduction in salvageable material led to protests and to a program of government assistance to the poor.