"In an extravagantly wasteful society that typically puts 254 million tons of unwanted stuff at the curb to be thrown away each year, landfill managers say they knew something was amiss in the economy when they saw trash levels start steadily dropping last year. Now, some are reporting declines as sharp as 30 percent. 'The trash man is the first one to know about a recession because we see it first,' said Richard S. Weber, manager of the Loudon County Landfill."
A Trashed Economy Foretold
by Brigid Schulte
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031303432.html
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Interesting. I wouldn’t say that bad economy is good, but it has some positive effects. I wonder how many of us will remember the lessons of recession five years from now.
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