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Trash or Treasure?

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e can get a good idea of what trash is all about by looking in the nearest trash can. You might see candy-bar wrappers, empty cups, fast-food packaging, old newspapers – things people don't want or can't use anymore. But what is trash? Are all the things in our trash can really trash? Is a spaghetti-sauce jar or an old pair of jeans really useless? Well, it depends on who you ask. What some people call trash, others call treasure. How do you know when to throw something out and when to hang on to it? Take the bike pictured here, for instance. You won't get very far riding it. So you might as well throw it out. It's trash – or is it? The bike does have some problems: rusty chrome, a broken chain, two flat tires. But a few repairs and a new paint job could put these wheels back on the road. So maybe it isn't trash.

What about car and truck tires? Americans throw away a whopping 240 million of them each year. As those tires pile up, so do the problems. Pests such as mosquitoes and rats can live in old tires. Tire dumps may catch fire and smolder for days, polluting the environment.

But a dump doesn't have to be the end of the road for an old tire. Hang one from a tree to make great swing. Or paint one pink and fill it with petunias. The rubber from chopped and shredded tires can be used to make doormats and hockey pucks. But the biggest and fastest growing use for tires is as a source of fuel – a process that the United States alone has the potential for converting some 200 million tires into fuel each year.

So you see, the definition of trash can vary from person to person. The people who handle our trash simply define it as all the things we've thrown away. Waste-disposal specialists call trash "solid waste" and define it to cover a broad list of categories that includes most everything we might discard.

But think about the bike and those old tires. Would you call them trash? Or treasure?




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