finding the signal to noise keeping up with I/O

The story is fading fast,  how Ari Derfel kept his trash for the year. The experiment began to examine his consumption and grew into a statement about consumerism and the environment.   Annie Leonard offers her own meditation in “The Story of Stuff“, in which she tells us how US industry produces 4 Billion lbs of toxic chemicals/year. Myself, I managed to rummage through my mail this morning– and after separating the wheat from the chaff, it came down to a handful of personal mail, a small box of bills and other items which needed my attention, and 14.7 POUNDS of junk.