- The campers who were too lazy to take out what they had brought in, who did they think would clean up after them?
- The Department of sanitation in New York City collects 11,000 tons of trash and 2,000 tons of recyclables each day
- Sanitation work is one of the ten most dangerous jobs in the country
- Sanitation workers are the most important labor force on the streets
- they are the first guardians of public health
- the economy needs them - if we can’t throw out the old stuff, we have no room for the new stuff
- the speed at which we are used to moving - we use items for the short-term and dispose of them
- Municipal waste (household garbage) accounts for [just] 3% of the nation’s waste-stream
And the talk...
