He and his workers have picked garbage up and down the West Coast and in Hawaii. On Friday, they were in Portland. Anderson says he can tell whether a load came from a wealthy or a poor neighborhood simply by looking at what people read or by what they feed their pets. They begin each day by plucking approximately 200 pounds from a garbage truck and spilling it onto a plastic tarp. Using plastic laundry baskets, crews separate the trash into more than 80 different categories.
Wadded newspaper is culled from soiled paper towels, for example.
The object hovering over Dorraine and Walt Banitt's farm was an unidentified one, but it wasn't a visitor from out of space. A blimp that had been cut loose from a car dealership about 50 miles away spent about 12 hours hovering above the Banitts' cornfield before landing early Friday. Dorraine Banitt said. The blimp floated away Thursday from Borton Volvo in Golden Valley when somebody cut the tethering rope. It hovered until the rope caught some tree branches and the Banitts dragged the blimp across the field and into their front yard.