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I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.

We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.

My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility.

I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.

Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.

Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.