A new memoir by a Montreal garbageman shows the actual work of cleaning up the world’s junk.
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The organization says the standard underpins the new certification to build trust in the chemical recycling of plastics.
“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.