Incredible Tale of the Traveling Trash

It was just regular household trash, incinerated in Philadelphia and loaded on a ship for disposal in 1986. That was the beginning of an incredible journey for 15,000 tons of ash as it traveled around the world in search of a final resting place. Now, 14 years later, some of that ash still waits off the coast of Florida."If everybody had to dispose of all their waste within a mile of their home, the incentive to reduce it would be far, far greater. If you could send it to themoon, you would have no reason to reduce it...[a]nd unfortunately, to some people, Haiti is like the moon."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan