Geek Habitat

How much crap do you throw away? If you’re a Berkeley, California, man who’s been saving his trash for the past year, you know the answer to that question — approximately 96 cubic feet of non-compostable waste (including 15 to 16 pounds of trash he generated while on vacation in Hawaii!) I wouldn’t want to visit the fellow, but I do like his style –

“When we throw something away, what does ‘away’ mean? There’s no such thing as ‘away.”‘ — Ari Derfel, the trash-saver (Save Your Trash — his blog)

I’d like to see him reprise the project at a future date, if he ever has a child. Something like this would quickly inspire most of us to go through the hassle of using cloth, instead of disposable, diapers.