Each day, every single person in the United States, all 324 million, discards about five pounds of waste. Be it a bottle that gets placed in a recycling bin or a piece of paper crumpled and tossed into the waste bin, every bit of the daily 1.6 billion pounds cast-off has a story. This book is full of those stories. It will wake you up and give you hope. As the author, Duncan Watson, says, “More people in America recycle than vote. Recycling is more popular than Democracy!”
Watson has been running the City of Keene’s solid waste program for 33 years. He has brought national attention to the program for solid waste disposal that Keene, NH, has built. He spins a good yarn, and the rich characters who populate the “dump” in Keene, New Hampshire, provide endless entertainment and a lot of laughs. --Publisher's blurb
About the author:
Duncan Watson began his personal trash journey in his pre-teens as an attendant at a small municipal recycling center in Northern California. After a brief stint as a child voice actor for Charlie Brown, he spent several years wandering the desert looking for a better paying gig. He ended up in New Hampshire and has spent the last 32 years (and counting) working for the City of Keene Public Works Department, including running the City’s solid waste program. Always a storyteller, he continues to explore the possibility of transforming the dump culture to provide a vision of something bigger, something worthy. Duncan has an MS in Resource Management from Antioch New England University.
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