By the time they finished printing the series, the Pengo was finished and they were sweeping up banknotes in the street as trash.

FORBES: Stage Already Set For Inflation

As the protesters moved through downtown Seattle, they threw street barriers, trash cans and newspaper bins on the streets in an attempt to block advancing police officers.

WSJ: Violence mars May Day rally in Seattle

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, trash is also a hot topic in Toledo, Ohio, where a scheme to replace trash collectors with bin-grabbing trucks is likely to be, well, trashed, after its year-long existence.

FORBES: Toledo to trash automated garbage collection

Eventually, they began recovering trash bags set on the street for disposal that contained incriminating evidence.

FORBES: A Federal Bust Of A Silicone Bust

"There's a name for this it's called 'passing the trash, ' " says David Grais, an attorney getting ready to sue Wall Street firms on behalf of investors big pension funds and others who bought the bad loans.

NPR: Auditor: Supervisors Covered Up Risky Loans

Shares of Hefty trash bag maker Pactiv Corp. jumped more than 20% on Monday morning following a Wall Street Journal report claiming the company is in talks with Apollo Global Management.

FORBES: Don't Expect Pactiv To Bag More Than $33