I thought I would share an interesting story recently revived in a Waste & Recycling News article written by Kerri Jansen. The media coverage of “The Barge to Nowhere” made people more waste-conscious ...
I'm not a regular reader of the New York Times' business page, but on Friday this almost-worthy-of-Grist headline caught my eye: Waste Yes, Want Not. Some of you might remember the saga of the Mobro ...
How did a simple barge become a symbol of rampant American consumerism and an omen of environmental disaster? That's the story of Mobro 4000, a garbage barge that logged 6,000 miles on the high seas ...
Ellis and Bragen's MOBRO uses the historical journey of the Mobro 4000 as a thematic launching point, examining issues of what we consume, what we waste, and what we reject. However, the environmental ...
You remember the Mobro 4000. No? They do at the Islip Art Museum, where its latest exhibit, "Garbage Barge Revisited: Art From Dross," opened Wednesday. Mobro 4000 was the barge that departed from New ...