What Does a Year of Garbage Look Like?

A San Francisco man has saved over a year of garbage not because he has disposaphobia, but because he ran an experiment in consumption.

For one year, 35-year old professional caterer Ari Derfel kept every tissue, receipt, food wrapper and plastic bottle inside bins located in his kitchen and living room apartment.  The "Green Wedding Guru" even organized the trash by type, so it could be "seen, felt and understood more clearly."

You can check out Derfel's blog-- see what he plans to do with this year's accumulation as well as his desire to see if he can collect less, next year.  Derfel even has a page devoted to his most embarrassing trash.

• Source:  CNN and Associated Press
• Check out Ari Derfel's blog - Save Your Trash
• Image courtesy Ari Derfel

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Comments

[Ariane Benefit, Neat & Simple Living]

WOW!!! you find the coolest stories!!! I wish I had what it takes to be an activist and not just feel guilty about my trash. We have tried to eliminate buying food with packaging..but it's impossible. Thanks for sharing!!

[krista colvin]

There is noooo way I could do this... a Christmas Day's worth of toy wrapping would bury us! All the twists, plastic, and cardboard drives me crazy.