The New Yorker

A Periodic Table of New York City Trash

My fascination with urban litter began at some point in the past seven years, but I can’t be more specific. That’s the period in which I have lived in Chinatown, and in which I started noticing the ...
Technical

Let this periodic table of trash take you into the weekend

Happy July! New York in the summertime is known for a lot of things and one of them is trash. New York is full of people and people create trash and despite the city’s relentless regimen of street ...
The Spokesman-Review

Miss Manners: Trash on the table

DEAR MISS MANNERS: It appears that servers at casual-dining establishments are not trained to remove trash from tables. Every time I dine at one, my companions and I are soon faced with a pile of ...
NJ.com

Miss Manners: Why must I collect the trash at the table when eating at a casual dining establishment?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: It appears that servers at casual-dining establishments are not trained to remove trash from tables. Every time I dine at one, my companions and I are soon faced with a pile of ...
NPR

We Leave Half Of All Our Seafood On The Table (And In The Trash)

Turned off by a slightly smelly fillet of halibut? Don't think that grilled salmon will be any good tomorrow? Such mealtime decisions may seem innocent enough, but when they're made by people all over ...