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Trash Has Crashed
The NY Times published a December 7th article titled Back at Junk Value, Recyclables Are Piling Up, which confirms what we've been learning here. The market for recyclables is drying up, and prices have declined precipitously. We don't know yet the extent of damage...
It Works
We worked most of Tuesday with university electricians to rewire the hotpress so that it wouldn't continually shut down the electrical circuits in the FADU basement, outside of the CEP, where it is now located. By Wednesday morning the electrical work was finished,...
Very Hot (pressing)
About 2 weeks before arriving in Buenos Aires, we arranged with Carlos Levinton to move the hotpress from INTI, where it had languished this past year, to his Center for Experimental Production (CEP) at the University of Bs.As. We wanted to maximize the short time we...
Back in Buenos Aires
We've been quiet on these pages for almost one year - the time that has passed since we left BsAs and returned to North America - but this doesn't mean that we've been quiet. Much and little has happened in the interim between December 2007 and December 2008. Caroline...
Who’s Doing What?
Who's doing what? How will Waste-for-Life BA sustain itself? The only thing we knew for certain before coming to Argentina was that our stay was finite. The time that separated our flight into and out of BA was 6 months; we knew very little else. It's premature to map...
Handing it Over
In a few hours we're off to INTI to participate in what is surely our final Waste-for-Life meeting before leaving Buenos Aires. We've already begun saying goodbye to our many compañeros, a word that after 6 months of learning and struggling here has real meaning for...