Charting New York's four-hundred-year struggle with trash, an anthropologist who spent ten years with sanitation workers of all ranks reveals what it takes for

A “gripping” behind-the-scenes look at New York’s sanitation workers by an anthropologist who joined the force (Robert Sullivan, author of Rats). America�

An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerging field t

Caldecott Award winner Brian Floca gives a heartfelt thank you to the essential workers who keep their cities going during COVID-19 quarantine in this tenderly

A pictorial review of the various types of refuse collections equipment that have developed since the adoption of motor trucks to this vital community service i