Texas Country Reporter
April 28, 2022
Calder Kamin’s Art Is Trashy, and That’s the Point
The Austin-based artist recycles discarded plastic into beautiful animal sculptures and hopes to inspire others to eliminate waste.
Trash
News & Politics
August 31, 1996
Environment • Tony Amos
Gulf pro.
Politics & Policy
May 31, 1996
Trash Talk
Why the citizens of Alvin are down in the dumps over garbage.
Business
February 1, 1989
A Dirty, Rotten Mess
Every day each of us contributes five pounds to the growing mountain of garbage. Now the mountain looks like a volcano that’s threatening to erupt.
Texas History
August 1, 1985
Isle Without End
An early castaway described Padre Island as “a wretched, barren sandbank.” It’s better known today as the Gold Coast of Texas, but its identity is still rooted in wildness and age-old solitude.
Art
January 1, 1985
“Take Nothing and Make Something”
Working alone at his home in East Texas, Fox Harris is divinely inspired to create towering, fanciful sculptures out of junk.
Business
November 1, 1984
Trashy Business
When Houston’s rich and powerful join forces with environmentalists to battle big corporations, they can be fighting over only one thing. Garbage.
Country Notes
April 30, 1979
All That Litters
Trash collectors are not necessarily garbage men.