It was a truly frigidly cold New York day outside this week, so I decided to do something practical and accomplish, reorganizing my clothing closet. As I looked at each trash bag full of clothes, I started to wonder where old clothes end up once they leave my home. I prepared two heavy-duty color-coordinated trash bags in my room to make sure I do not make mistakes as to which bag I want to toss the various items into. One color was for garbage, another was for the thrift shop, since I often separate clothes in trash bags depending on...

Checking my garage storage shelves yesterday to see what I needed at the supermarket, I noticed that we had overbought both clear trash bags and black garbage bags over the last eight months. Because of the pandemic, we worried that supplies of trash bags would be depleted and along with my supply of paper towels and toilet paper, many of the boxes of bags are laying around waiting to be used. Yes, I am still diligently using the heavy-duty plastic outdoor trash bags to line my outside garbage cans and keeping them super clean and sanitary. I even got compliments...

How could the simple garbage bag get into the middle of a national election dispute? The issue of garbage bags and politics has unexpectedly surfaced, raising concerns tied to reports of ballots found in trash. As we all know by now, Joe Biden will most likely be our new president-elect come January 2021. Many Americans from both the political and private arenas are questioning the validity of the 2020 presidential elections due to alleged voter fraud. How will the new president gain the confidence of those who did not vote for him? There may always be a doubt in their...

Can you tell by shaking a heavy-duty plastic garbage bags what is in it? Let us imagine that you are shaking the bag and hear a clunking sound. Would you be able to distinguish between a vase or a toy? Nelson Molina, a retired New York City sanitation worker can. Molina claims that by the way the item pokes from inside the bag and the sound the item makes when hitting the ground are hints to what the object hidden in the garbage bag is. For example, when Nelson hears the ping that is made when a trash bag is...

Are you one of those people who constantly complain about the mounds of trash in black garbage bags lining the streets on garbage day? I do not blame anyone for caring about our environment and the growing concerns around trash in landfills and the allegations that sea creatures are eating plastic garbage bags for lunch. Does the word landfill conjure up a negative connotation in your conscience? Thanks to some great futuristic minds, landfills turned into parks are now becoming a reality, transforming former waste sites into beautiful parks in different cities of our nation as well as mountains as...