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The boneyard and disarmament (or how to buy a B-52 fighter seat for your office)
During the early 1990s, giant guillotines in Tuscan, Arizona cut up and destroyed about US5.5 billion dollars worth of B-52 bombers. These were the B-52G bomber.
In today's terms, each…
Category: Government waste
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The Berlin Wall and Cold War rubbish agreements
During the Cold War, West Berlin was completely surrounded by East Germany. The Berlin Wall sealed the city...and its waste.
While food and supplies could be transported in from West…
Category: Government waste
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Bill Gates and waste
Apart from Microsoft, Bill Gates biggest public US investment is in waste.
Currently he owns about USD1.44 billion worth of shares in Republic Services (RSG), the second biggest waste company…
Category: Commercial waste
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The Philosopher's Stone, urine and serendipity
Serendipity is the accidental discovery of something useful whilst looking for something else. And this is exactly what happened to a 17th century German while experimenting with urine.
Hennig Brandt…
Category: Weird waste
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What's wrong with this photo?
In the bazaars of Balkh, Afghanistan, traders sit next to tables laid with carrots, apricots, almonds and melons. The carrots are much like carrots found all over the world, orange…
Category: Agricultural waste
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How to make a sausage (or how to make friends at a bar-b-que)
First, gain the guts or intestines of a slaughtered sheep, pig or cow and gently squeeze out as much of the pooh as possible.
Cut the guts into 50cm or…
Category: Agricultural waste
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Volcanoes, rotten egg gas and plasterboard
Around 250 million years ago, gigantic clouds of rotten egg gas swept over and smothered the earth and caused a mass extinction. In recent years the dumping of construction plasterboard…
Category: Industrial waste
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