where we gonna go from here?
-Matt Kearney
Child, the only way to go is up. Look up, up, up. And you’ll be going someplace already.
Just Up, Up, Up.
The video, made by Mae Ryan for Los Angeles public radio KPCC, traces trash from a burger lunch to its ultimate fate in a landfill. It reminds me of those great, old Sesame Street videos where you got to see what goes on inside crayon factories and peanut butter processing plants. Which is to say that it is awesome.
The process you see here, though, is L.A.-centric, which started me wondering: How much does the trash system differ from one place to another in the United States?
This BoingBoing post — read it here: Behind the scenes of a city: Trash in L.A. - Boing Boing — asks readers over there to submit links to trash-process videos in other cities, and there are a number of responses. Evidently one could put together a mini video festival demonstrating how trash is dealt with by different municipalities!
