New York City-based art-minded entrepreneur Justin Gignac has now “duped” 1,300 people in 30 countries to buy a cube of “100% authentic,” “hand-picked” NYC Garbage in “smell-proof” Lucite cubes at $50 a pop ($100 for “special” trash) and got super famous — even though this is an old, old art school project. The hoopla begat in 2001, when Gignac bet he could sell anything in a nice package: “I figured the only way to prove them wrong would be to package something that nobody in their right mind would ever want to buy.” Ok, one problem… Read more »
Parting Shot: Wasting Away
If you think New York gets bad, check out the loads of garbage in Marseille, France, where trash collectors just called off a seven-day strike. |The Connexion|
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