Trash as treasure

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American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash—all of them—surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away is much greater than the things we use.John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America, 1962