The Conscience of the City: On the life of the garbageman (opens in new tab)

Simon Paret-Poupart in Harper’s Magazine: I’m a garbageman. Day after day, I heave and haul the detritus of the most polluting civilization in history. In two decades, I’ve handled tens of thousands of tons of trash, and the looks I get along my route suggest that people sometimes mistake me for the garbage I handle. The…