How do objects acquire their monetary value? What makes something worth $2 rather than $100? By poking fun at such questions, artist Justin Gignac has found a way to turn trash into something closer to treasure. picked by doggylives 5 months ago

A plan by three Hudson children to pick up trash Monday along the St. Croix River turned into a much bigger event than they or their parents expected. picked by mutil8or 4 months ago

A local council in London is paying plainclothes officers £30,000 pounds ($60,000) a year to track down homeowners who take out their trash at the wrong time. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

An interactive story centered around a piece of white trash. MATURE LANGUAGE picked by donteatpoop 2 years ago

There are some designer handbags that are really luxurious looking, almost fooling you into believing they're worth the thousands of dollars on the price tag. But this Chanel bag really resembles a trash bag. picked by ybne1else 2 years ago

A car crash in West Yarmouth led police to the discovery of a filthy car filled to the brim with trash and rubbish. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

A couple picking up trash along a roadside found a winning scratch-off lottery ticket that led them to a $1,000 jackpot. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

This guy is making money off of others peoples trash picked by mgalpert 2 years ago

The thinnest lightest laptop ever too thin and too light for its own good? Or maybe he just thought it was trash... picked by blurmore 6 months ago

Enterprising opportunists have realised that rich pickings sit weekly on curbsides across America in the form of rubbish already sorted for recycling. If they get there before the collection trucks then they can plunder and pillage then sell their green booty on to recyclers. picked by pocksucket 2 months ago

A civic-minded clean-up effort in Ohio turned up a military rocket-launcher someone apparently had stashed behind a telephone pole. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Officials are discontinuing the use of trash bags featuring the county's logo -- Martin Luther King Jr.'s face -- after deeming them innapropriate. The move opens a window into the tricky decisions the county has to make more than two years after becoming the first government to adopt King's face as an emblem. picked by suebe 2 days ago

Florida, land of the braindead parent. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

title says all. picked by qazwer00 2 weeks ago

A truly amazing design for a trash can. yes I said trash can. Today's recycling is very complicated. Different types of metals, plastics, paper, etc each have unique requirements. Manually sorting it and just determining which type it is is now a thing of the past. This device will determine which recycling bin the item belongs in and open that bin automatically. picked by leopoldogolba 7 months ago

Two students saw the giant mess left when everyone moved out of the dorm. They figured out it was really a mountain of opportunity. Which campus will be the next one to turn the end-of-year dorm refuse into charity dollars? picked by hisidea 1 year ago

In a quest to realize his environmental impact, a man has been saving ALL his trash for the past year. He's healthier now too. picked by suebe 8 months ago

Yup, Florida. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

China is moving to clean up its northern side of the mountain and protect its fragile Himalayan environment, announcing a trash collection campaign that could limit the number of climbers and other visitors in 2009. picked by suebe 2 months ago

A floating house built out of trash in a reeking channel of a Rio de Janiero slum will be preserved as a model for recycling in a government anti-pollution campaign. picked by suebe 1 year ago