A contributor for The New Yorker has created an interactive periodic table of recognizable NYC trash. From playbills to broken umbrellas, this periodic table shows the reality of trash that floods the streets of New York City. The New Yorker has the details:
My fascination with urban litter began at some point in the past seven years, but I can’t be more specific. That’s the period in which I have lived in Chinatown, and in which I started noticing the neighborhood’s unique and heterogeneous trash footprint.
