No.295 / October 1997

Trash - Heaps of trouble

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Inside the heap
Vanessa Baird on the search for value in a throwaway world.

Patrick and the storks
Elaine Eliah interviews a Kampala scavenger.

A curious mysticism
A plea for materialism from Jeremy Seabrook as the world's most powerful cult sweeps the South.

Tao of the dumpster
My father's love affair with trash. A quirky tale by Dirk Jamison.

Stuff and its secrets
The secret lives of everyday things by John C Ryan and Alan Thein Durning.

People who get rubbished
Nancy Scheper-Hughes on Brazil's street-children and her own aged parents in a Baltimore nursing home.

Return to sender
Germany is ordering industry to take back its trash. Ute Sprenger reports from Berlin.

Together we can trash the planet!
Strip-cartoonist PJ Polyp goes wild.

Ship of ills
Brazilian environmentalist Marijane Lisboa details a toxic-waste scandal.

Eat Nuke
Nuclear waste is heading for famine-struck North Korea. Shin Seung reports.

Real genius
Five examples, from Beijing to Bonn and Cairo to Calcutta, of how people are bucking the trashy trend and making good use of refuse.

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