While I was taking out the recycling today I thought of what a person's garbage tells you about them. I like to consider new ways that peoples' possessions, or in this case their waste, speak for them. Receipts is an oldie but a goodie.
I considered how under certain circumstances a bottle of wine in the recycling could mean a lot. I thought of how much more interesting a full bottle would be to find in the trash rather than an ordinary empty one. For some reason the full bottle of wine took hold of me a little and I started to think of how unused or unfinished products are much more interesting or even incriminating when found in the garbage than other products.
You throw something out when you're done with it so usually empty containers or shredded documents are thrown out. But things like crisp blank paper or full bottles of medication are much more interesting to think about and wonder why someone might throw out a thing that it would appear they are not finished with.
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