The Christian Science Monitor calls the postmodern community dump the new heart of the suburb.
"You might assume that a budget crisis is responsible for largely upper middle-class Americans assuming a task that involves tossing bottles into dumpsters amidst buzzing bees, standing in muck to off-load yard waste, and heaving heavy bags of trash into malodorous dumpsters in summer's heat and winter's chill. But you would be wrong.About 10 years ago the town survey asked whether residents preferred to switch to curbside pickup or to continue hauling trash to the dump as they had since Needham was a more rural community. It wasn't even close - 80 percent opted for self-service."
Thanks to Laura Kranz
FULL STORY: Heart of a suburb: the postmodern dump

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