“The trash man is the first one to know about a recession because we see it first,” said Richard S. Weber, manager of the Loudoun County landfill. “Circuit City’s closing, so people aren’t going there and buying those big boxes of stuff and throwing away all that Styrofoam and shrink-wrap . . . and whatever they were replacing.”
Above is an excerpt from the Washington Post March 14th, 2009. It tells the story of how people in the trash business foresaw the sharp economic downtown after the bubbly zip-zipped from our fluted glasses of not really plenty… You see, in our country (not to say not elsewhere necessarily,) less completely wasteful trash ‘means’ times are not so great, and that is very sadly all too telling…. Keeping it brief, heading out to the park!
DM