Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City

Picking Up

On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City

2013 • 304 pages

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I liked it as both an insiders view of waste management and a history of the New York sanitation department. I would have preferred more of the latter but I enjoyed the story. I agree with the author that waste management and civil engineering in general are the foundations of civilization.

December 10, 2013

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