Caroline Howe: A life in trash
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2012
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
A trip to India to work for an environmental program leads Caroline Howe to a new passion: trash. "I was the first to arrive, so obviously I was the one to set up our waste management system."
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt a huge, but I was so unhappy. |
| 0:09.0 | I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, |
| 0:25.7 | where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:29.5 | This week's story is from Caroline Howe. |
| 0:32.2 | The story was recorded in April 2012 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 0:36.9 | The theme of the event was travel. |
| 0:40.3 | I grew up in a small town in Connecticut. Now some people think that Brooklyn is a small town, |
| 0:49.3 | but y'all don't know small towns. Durham, Connecticut is 6,000 people, 10,000 cows. |
| 0:57.1 | We've got one library, one street light, one bar, |
| 1:01.3 | and luckily, one dump. |
| 1:03.9 | Durham is too small to have door-to-door pickup of our garbage, |
| 1:07.9 | so every week, everyone, like my family, would head to the dump. |
| 1:12.6 | Now, the dump was a big deal. |
| 1:15.4 | That's how small Durham was. |
| 1:17.1 | It was a big, exciting adventure to go to the dump, not only because you would get that |
| 1:21.2 | thrilling sound of glass hitting glass and some glass breaking. |
| 1:25.0 | You'd also get the excitement of garbage being compacted, and papers sort of |
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