{"product_id":"trash-a-garbagemans-story-by-simon-pare-poupart-and-pablo-strauss-translator","title":"Trash!: A Garbageman's Story by Simon Paré-Poupart and Pablo Strauss  (Translator)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParé-Poupart’s story is 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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrash!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAligned with great books about work from Zola to Orwell to Lucia Berlin, and in dialogue with societal critiques like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow To Do Nothing, Trash!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will change how you think about your waste and the people who handle it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mahala Independent Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62890838786378,"sku":null,"price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/5662\/5482\/files\/241717014.jpg?v=1786006836","url":"https:\/\/mahala.bg\/products\/trash-a-garbagemans-story-by-simon-pare-poupart-and-pablo-strauss-translator","provider":"Mahala Independent Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}