Garbage Week

In the 20th century, teen cultural politics played out on sound stages around the country.

One company in St. Louis produced nearly all the uranium used in the Manhattan Project.

An animatronic trash can named PUSH eventually got the shove.

Cities used to be literally full of crap.

One of only six in the U.S.

Hexxus, Captain Pollution, and the heyday of animated eco-villains.

Never trust a man who says he'll triple your investment in composting worms.

An artist collected trash from every block in Brooklyn for a surprisingly lovely collage of local litter.

These eight-legged grumps may be trying to clock each other with shells.

A 1994 lawsuit scared other developers away from the garbage can.

Ironically, the early computing phrase's history is rife with bad information.

For decades, a sanitation worker turned curator has collected and displayed his best Dumpster finds.

The frogs live in a barren area of the country surrounded by trash.

It turns out, though, that utopia kind of sucks: the trash tubes ended up only getting as far as tiny Roosevelt Island.