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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage

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William L. Rathje, Cullen Murphy

Perennial, 1993

What Our Rubbish Says About Us
This is an overview of the University of Arizona's continuing trash sorting project started in 1972 to document the lifestyle habits of the American public through observing what we eat, what we use in household goods, etc., and then throw out. Socio, political and economic behaviors become evident while recording the fascinating finds in daily trash digging, probing, and quantifying. This ...

Encyclopedia of Garbage
Steve Coffel

Facts on File, 1996

Defined as all waste matter generated by human activity, garbage is an element of our way of life that cannot be understood in isolation. Entries range from household garbage and industrial waste to chemical effluents and airborne chemical emissions.