{"id":696,"date":"2026-06-18T11:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:39:18","slug":"a-close-up-look-at-the-waste-of-modern-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"A Close-Up Look at the Waste of Modern Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<section><p>Like many small children, my daughter reveres garbage trucks. In the mornings, she goes to the window and asks, eyes shining, whether today will be a \u201cgarbage-truck day.\u201d When she sees or hears one, she reacts with a giddy, half-afraid delight that I imagine she\u2019ll reserve, someday, for roller coasters or getting a body part pierced. Once, I had to spend half an hour teaching her the concept of synonyms because she was so upset that I\u2019d referred to the sacred trucks\u2019 contents as \u201ctrash,\u201d not \u201cgarbage.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=692\">Atlantic Trivia: RIP 747<\/a><\/p><p>According to the Montreal garbageman Simon Par\u00e9-Poupart, toddler garbage fandom is a manifestation of the age-old human appreciation of strength and daring. In his memoir, <i>Trash!<\/i>, a French-language hit recently translated into English by Pablo Strauss, Par\u00e9-Poupart explains that children are \u201cso impressed by the truck that they worship the man who seems to tame its force.\u201d But really, his book argues, garbagemen wage war against a force far more powerful than any engine or trash compactor: their fellow humans\u2019 tendency to acquire more stuff than they need. Par\u00e9-Poupart loves his job, but he also knows that by tidying up the \u201cdetritus of the most polluting civilization in human history,\u201d he and his colleagues make it too easy for everyone else to forget how much waste they really create. In <i>Trash!<\/i>, he challenges his readers to pay more attention\u2014to see the age of DoorDash and same-day delivery as garbagemen do.<\/p><section><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-695\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1cd2a0bd4bdee1dc918f1e1e8244b29f.avif\" width=\"170\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<div><div>Trash!: A Garbageman&#8217;s Story<\/div><div>By <!-- -->Pare-Poupart, Simon<\/div><\/div><div><div><button>Buy Book<\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><p>It doesn\u2019t look good. <i>Trash! <\/i>is a street-level portrait of both lack and excess, an expos\u00e9 of rich societies\u2019 overconsumption and waste. Every day, Montreal\u2019s garbagemen throw the results of too much buying into their trucks and receive too little in return: low wages, long hours, no job security, no aid for the athlete-level wear and tear that come with the job. And they don\u2019t get much respect, never mind that if they weren\u2019t there to clean up the city, it would grind to a sick, smelly, rat-infested halt.<\/p><p>Par\u00e9-Poupart takes Francophone literature to particular task for leaving his colleagues out of the cohort of \u201c\u2018working-class heroes\u2019 celebrated in popular culture, from Quebec\u2019s novels of rural life to \u00c9mile Zola\u2019s miners. Nobody writes novels about garbagemen.\u201d He seems to be writing for those who need to imagine, not remember, what it\u2019s like to take an accidental \u201cshower in compost bin juice\u201d or have the man whose garbage cans you\u2019re wrangling sneer at you, \u201cI went to school so I wouldn\u2019t have to do a job like that.\u201d<\/p><p><i>Trash! <\/i>is an intriguing attempt to broaden the parameters of this kind of book. Par\u00e9-Poupart has a distinctly 21st-century knack for swirling together theoretical and visceral language: Ren\u00e9 Descartes on one page, and grubs \u201cwriggling and swarming in every garbage bag\u201d on the next. His grab-bag writing is reminiscent of the internet at its rare, educational best. Par\u00e9-Poupart\u2019s style gives his book a rambunctious spirit, a sense of a hungry, catholic mind at work. All sorts of dilemmas come together in <i>Trash!<\/i>, which reveals them to be expressions of the same core issue. Par\u00e9-Poupart shows readers a society whose members, with too few exceptions, seem to treat both their belongings and the workers who ultimately handle them as disposable.<\/p><p>Par\u00e9-Poupart is, by his own account, an unconventional garbageman. As a teenager, he was a Dungeons &amp; Dragons devotee with academic dreams unusual for his middle-class community, in which \u201cliking school didn\u2019t command respect.\u201d His family wanted him to go to college, but only because doing so would lead to higher pay. What his stepfather really valued, at least, was masculinity: While Par\u00e9-Poupart was still in high school, he got hired to run behind garbage trucks after his stepdad challenged him to \u201cbe a man.\u201d (In Quebec, trucks often drive at a crawl while collectors jog after them, tossing in trash.)<\/p><p>Garbage put Par\u00e9-Poupart through college and graduate school in sociology, and even as he pursued work in research and social services after earning his degrees, he kept \u201cright on throwing trash, where the physical challenge, camaraderie, and steady income balance out the intellectual satisfactions of other jobs.\u201dIn <i>Trash!<\/i>, he brings his two careers together, although he never allows the writer side of himself to outshine the garbageman. Take his critique of recycling, which he describes as a \u201cmagic trick, or more properly a sleight of hand.\u201d It\u2019s an illusion, in both Quebec and the United States, that most plastic really goes anywhere except an enormous drift in the ocean or a giant heap in one of the poorer countries that buy rich ones\u2019 refuse. To Par\u00e9-Poupart, this reality is not just a planetary insult but also a personal one. The contaminated plastic that recycling companies ship from Montreal to India, he writes, includes \u201crecyclables I picked up with my own two hands.\u201d<\/p><p>Elsewhere, too, Par\u00e9-Poupart takes care to explain the links between trash and garbagemen\u2019s working and living conditions. Citing the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, he writes that our \u201cworld generates a glut of both actual garbage and what Bauman terms \u2018human waste,\u201d meaning those whom society has rejected or deemed unproductive\u2014or, as Par\u00e9-Poupart has it, anyone who \u201cnever had a chance.\u201d He includes most garbagemen in this category, and his evocation of their rough lives is potent evidence of profound social lack. In Quebec, waste collectors historically haven\u2019t had strong labor rights or protections. Many struggle with poverty; Par\u00e9-Poupart mentions one garbageman whose truck meets him daily on the corner where he sleeps.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=690\">What Did You Expect?<\/a><\/p><p>Par\u00e9-Poupart describes this man, and others like him, with grace and admiration, though he can veer into idealization. Of a 52-year-old nicknamed \u201cBeaujeunehomme\u201d who generally arrives at work \u201cin a state of inebriation that would make even the hardest drinkers stagger,\u201d Par\u00e9-Poupart writes, \u201cEveryone in the garbage business accepts him just the way he is, unconditionally, few questions asked.\u201d And then he adds, \u201cBeaujeunehomme is a castoff who feels right at home surrounded by garbage.\u201d <i>Trash! <\/i>regularly expresses this vision of garbagemen as rebels united by their work, which can be unsettling when Par\u00e9-Poupart is writing about men with much less social mobility than he has. He doesn\u2019t convince me that Beaujeunehomme <i>is <\/i>accepted, not trapped.<\/p><p>If <i>Trash!<\/i> were exclusively stories of Montreal\u2019s Beaujeunehommes alongside that of Par\u00e9-Poupart himself, it might seem unsavory. Its author\u2019s education\u2014and, more important, his power as the lone narrator of his world\u2014already risks creating too much of a divide, on the page if not necessarily in person, between him and the men he writes about. Its intellectual components are the reason it works. Even though I\u2019m skeptical of <i>Trash!<\/i>\u2019s account of Beaujeunehomme, I can appreciate its analysis of\u2014and anger at\u2014the conditions garbagemen deal with on the job, which Par\u00e9-Poupart often puts in cerebral as well as anecdotal terms. It\u2019s when he combines these two modes that his argument grows most convincing.<\/p><p>Consider Par\u00e9-Poupart\u2019s discussions of garbageman strength: He describes one man who can \u201cride a garbage truck like a human flag\u201d\u2014as in, hanging onto it while his torso projects horizontally over the street\u2014and another who was once seen to \u201cpick up a washing machine and throw it into the hopper, with one hand, <i>without stepping off the truck\u2019s running board<\/i>.\u201d As far as he\u2019s concerned, these men\u2019s work \u201cresembles elite sports for its combination of performance, toil, and pushing yourself to new feats,\u201d but rather than the men being rewarded with massive contracts and advertising deals, \u201cworkers\u2019 strength is a commodity to be exploited until their dying day, with no regard for their well-being or will.\u201d As is often the case in Par\u00e9-Poupart\u2019s book, the string of connections here\u2014garbagemen showing off, pro athleticism, and some pretty Marxist language\u2014is unusual enough to jar readers, which is an excellent strategy for getting them to stop to really consider how taxing trash collection must be.<\/p><p>But <i>Trash!<\/i>, for better and worse,is never content to make a point without putting it into perspective. After explaining that the highest praise among garbage collectors is to say that someone is strong enough to work a grueling shift like a machine, Par\u00e9-Poupart asks, \u201cIsn\u2019t the fact that we\u2019re forced to work at this inhuman pace a sure sign that we\u2019re drowning in waste?\u201d In his view, the answer is so evidently <i>yes<\/i> that he\u2019s given up on consumption to the extent that he can: He writes that he scavenges and salvages nearly everything, and believes that repairing rejected goods is the only plausible reaction to living in an overproducing, overdiscarding world.<\/p><p>Par\u00e9-Poupart\u2019s constant need to connect and contextualize can be a little exhausting, as I imagine his dumpster-diving lifestyle might be. Still, the book is exhilarating (also like dumpster diving?) on every page. Par\u00e9-Poupart\u2019s hyperactive, genre-mixing writing suggests that writing about contemporary labor and its place in consumer societies may benefit from being associative and capacious. Whether the work is online or in the physical world, it is ever more influenced by the too-much-ness of the current era, and seems to call for a different writing style than the methodical, thorough one that 19th- and early 20th-century authors used to evoke the slaughterhouse or the factory\u2014or, to return to Zola, the mine.<\/p><p>Of course, Zola was hyperactive in his own way. <i>Germinal<\/i>, his book about coal miners, belongs to a 20-novel cycle that follows a sprawling family through the reign of Napoleon III. <i>Germinal <\/i>is perhaps the most famous of the series, but I first encountered it through <i>The Ladies\u2019 Paradise<\/i>, which came out in 1883 and explored the then-brand-new world of the department store. It\u2019s a tale of greedy bosses and exploited workers in a society that urges anyone who can to shop endlessly. Although Par\u00e9-Poupart might not like the comparison, it came to me as I read <i>Trash!<\/i>, which demonstrates that garbagemen, like miners and shopgirls, can be literary heroes too.<\/p><div><p>\u200bWhen you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive a commission. 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