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January 21, 2011

Strange But True!

Q. Can you imagine what sort of job might prompt a woman to declare that “trash is her treasure”?

A. Meet Robin Nagle, anthropologist-in-residence for the New York City Department of Sanitation, who took a job working alongside the city's garbage men and women and even trained to drive a truck, says Nicholette Zeliadt in Scientific American magazine. Nagel's passion about waste management dates back to a childhood hiking trip with her dad in the pristine Adirondack Mountains, when she discovered their campsite had been used as a dump by previous hikers. “I was absolutely astonished that people I assumed cared about the environment would in fact trash it. Who did they think was going to come and clean it up? And that question stayed with me.”


 
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