Waste-to-energy
gregladen | June 6, 2013When I was a kid, there was a strange looking garbage can in the back yard. It looked like a regular metal garbage cans (garbage cans were metal back in those days, before plastic was invented) but it was covered with round holes about one inch in diameter. It was also heavily corroded and lived behind the large brick fireplace that was also in the back yard. No one used it for anything but I remember that it had an interesting story that went along with it.
This can was used back in the day, before I was born, by my grandfather (who lived upstairs) to burn garbage. The story was about a…