{"id":15978,"date":"2013-11-07T15:35:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=15978"},"modified":"2013-11-07T15:35:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:35:12","slug":"the-invisible-people-who-take-our-trash-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-invisible-people-who-take-our-trash-away\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible People Who Take our Trash &#8220;Away&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sanitation-workers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15979\" alt=\"sanitation workers\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sanitation-workers.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sanitation-workers.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sanitation-workers-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever gotten stuck behind a garbage truck? Or heard one banging against a <a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/2013\/10\/23\/inflatable-space-dumpster-enables-urban-hacking\/\">dumpster<\/a> in the middle of the night? I&#8217;d guess that for most of us, these inconveniences\/disturbances are among the few times we give any thought to the people who deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2013\/01\/hate-waste\/\">our waste<\/a> after we throw it &#8220;away.&#8221; Anthropologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/robin_nagle_what_i_discovered_in_new_york_city_trash.html\">Robin Nagle&#8217;s TEDCity 2.0 talk<\/a> focuses on these people, the benefits they create for the rest of us, and the treatment they often endure (because, like the trash they haul, we don&#8217;t want to deal with them).<\/p>\n<p>Take a few minutes to watch Nagle&#8217;s talk, and then let us know what you think?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What I discovered in New York City trash | Robin Nagle\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eNAHVnkll5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wink\/1162388614\/\">juicyrai<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever gotten stuck behind a garbage truck? Or heard one banging against a dumpster in the middle of the night? I&#8217;d guess that for most of us, these inconveniences\/disturbances are among the few times we give any thought to the people who deal with our waste after we throw it &#8220;away.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":16936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[6623,4316,5938,6624,689,6625],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who Cleans Up After Us?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Anthropologist Robin Nagle discusses her work in an urban sanitation department, and the &quot;invisible&quot; people who take care of the wastes we create daily.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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