COLLECTION

a celebration of trash in America

COLLECTION

COLLECTIONa celebration of trash

in America

Bekah Nutt

Copyright © 2010 by Bekah NuttAll rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

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We all collect things. Whether it’s your extensive collection of vintage

ephemera or simply all of those plastic grocery bags that you have

no use for but you stick under the sink anyway, in our modern society,

collection is inevitable. Sometimes we hold on to these collections for

many years but sometimes only for a few weeks or days. What happens

when we’re done collecting?

In America, the average amount of trash produced per day, per person

is roughly 4.5 pounds. It seems as thought we are collecting more than

we thought. From sea to garbage-filled sea, trash is everywhere.

Via the magic of flickr, presented here is some of our nation’s best.

All photos courtesy of flickr.com and used under a Creative Commons license.

The typeface used in the book is Centaur, designed by Bruce Roger, after letters cut by Nicolas Jenson, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1914 and released by Monotype in 1929.

Printed in the USA by Lulu.

Design by Bekah Nutt.