...Nagle spent more than a year working with New York sanitation teams, sometimes hauling bags, sometimes driving garbage trucks. She ended up with a huge amount of material for a forthcoming book, "Picking Up," and a somewhat smaller collection of what is known as "mongo." It's a sanitation crew term for something plucked out of the trash for reuse. ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 463_2.html
What does Mongo mean?
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hehehe...
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Damn you You Tube!
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If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy.
Noli nothis permittere te terere.