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The bed bug times are a’ changin’, ever so slowly »

By nobugsonme on May 22, 2008 in apartments, bad ideas, bed bug awareness, bed bug epidemic, bed bug garbage, bed bug-infested refuse, bed bugs, bed bugs and dumpster diving, bed bugs and landlords, bed bugs and mattresses, bed bugs and tenants, bed bugs in apartment buildings, bed bugs spread, bedbugs, dumpster diving, freegans, maine, mattress recycling, mattresses, portland, tossing things out, usa, used furniture, used mattresses | 0 Comments

Or so it would seem.
Earlier this week, there was the bed bug bill in the U.S. Congress.
And yesterday, an article in the Maine Switch (a website for those in Greater Portland) about the city’s yearly trash pick-up of bulky trash items. Not surprisingly, the day is a yearly impromptu festival for bargain […]

Near-sighted paper celebrates dumpster diving outside NYU dorms. Oh, New York Times! »

By nobugsonme on Jun 22, 2007 in avoid bed bugs, bad ideas, bed bugs, being green, colleges, consumer, dumpster diving, freegans, furnishing bedbug-free homes, new york | 16 Comments

The New York Times is fickle. In the last year, they’ve scared the pants off of New Yorkers by publishing scary articles about how bed bugs were spreading around the city and what you need to do if you find them.
So imagine my surprise to find that yesterday, Steven Kuritz published an article in […]