{"product_id":"trash-simon-parzs-poupart-9798228822924","title":"Trash!: A Garbageman's Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Montreal garbageman's sharp and funny memoir\/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to \"stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParé-Poupart's story is atypical: he started working as a garbageman to pay for school, and after earning graduate degrees and working in more \"respectable\" fields, he is still on a truck--out of love for the physical rush, for his rough-and-tumble colleagues, and for an honesty and freedom that no other job has yet given him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis sociology background informs his inquiry into our collective wastefulness and individual failure to confront the trash we produce. Every abstract observation comes with hilarious and hair-raising stories from the collection route to his days off spent hunting down furniture and toys for family and friends, as a committed freegan.\u003ci\u003eTrash!\u003c\/i\u003e--the French edition of which is a runaway bestseller in Canada--explains and questions efforts to \"clean up\" a business with longstanding conventions of its own, a last bastion of well-paid employment for people who cannot fit in anywhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAligned with great books about work from Zola to Orwell to Lucia Berlin, and in dialogue with societal critiques like \u003ci\u003eHow to Do Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTrash!\u003c\/i\u003e will change how you think about your waste and the people who handle it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon Paré-Poupart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798228822924\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blackstone Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD","brand":"Simon Paré-Poupart","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":48852721860863,"sku":"9798228822924","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/trash-simon-parzs-poupart-9798228822924","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}