This is an exercise in writing sentences.
Whatever follows is an interpretation of certain events
and a poorly researched one at that.
Having said that - I believe the sentences hold truth.
Some more, some less.
I would not be sharing them otherwise.

My last fifteen minute break is at ten o' clock in the evening.
When I step outside into the underground parking lot it's deserted.
Nothing, but a mental echo of three hundred people stepping in and out each day.
A third of them come here more often, three to five times per day to light one up.
I am one of them.
This is my fifth time.

I walk over to the nearest garbage can.
By now it's stuffed and topped with cigarette butts, cartons and paper coffee cups.
The can is fixed to a wall, where markings of ash swirl in and out of the can's head.
Every day, butt by butt, cup by cup company employees offer their neurotic deposit,
in a cooperative molding of a corporate waste masterpiece.
And every time I step outside this late, I'm amazed at how good they've gotten at it.

You wouldn't dare think more of it than that - a byproduct of business culture.
A disgraceful, punny, sickening display of mindless greed or ignorance.
But there is beauty in it, albeit ironic.
A beauty I still can't decide whether it is calculated, natural or accidental.
(Isn't that how the greatest artists trick us, in the end?)
Suppose we deem a sculpture (or a human being for that matter) pleasing to the eye,
because we're drawn to perfect form.
Disregard for now, concepts such as symmetry or proportion.
Pretend, that the eye sees only the basic of dimensions - height and width and length.
And if the three of them are right, you get perfect volume.

One hundred fifty employees come in and out of the building per day on average.
Seventy-five percent of them smoke or drink coffee, which leaves us with 113.
Each one of those, steps out of the building an average of four times per day.
All combined leave an average of 452 cigarette butts in the garbage can.
10mL is the volume of a cigarette butt, without any tobacco on it.
Given that this is a very busy environment in question, we'll extend the average volume to 12mL.
Which gives us a total of 5424mL of cigarette buts deposited into the trash can on an average day.
The volume of the trashcan is 6 liters.
Which means it has just enough space left for the average amount of coffee cups and cartons deposited into the trashcan daily.

It is beautiful - I kid you not.