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‘Trash!’ Is a Close-Up Look at the Waste of Modern Life - The Atlantic

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A new memoir by a Montreal garbageman shows the actual work of cleaning up the world’s junk.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 11:10 Like many small children, my daughter reveres garbage trucks. In the mornings, she goes to the window and asks, eyes shining, whether today will be a “garbage-truck day.” When she sees or hears one, she reacts with a giddy, half-afraid delight that I imagine she’ll reserve, someday, for roller coasters or getting a body part pierced. Once, I had to spend half an hour teaching her the concept of synonyms because she was so upset that I’d referred to the sacred trucks’ contents as “trash,” not “garbage.” According to the Montreal garbageman Simon Paré-Poupart, to

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