Trash!

Reviews for the Canadian edition . . .

"Mr. Paré-Poupart has been a Red Cross co-ordinator, an outreach worker, a contributor to an alternative paper. But he still works the trash runs. He enjoys doing manual labor, rubbing shoulders with colorful characters, being free from social norms." — The Globe and Mail

"A beautifully hybrid text. Part exposé of the hidden lives of trash collectors, part critique of consumer society, this account mixes in blue-collar curse words with references to labor history and Émile Zola. Throughout, Paré-Poupart insists on the nobility of his profession. He and his colleagues “pick up, day after day, the remnants of the most polluting civilization in the history of humanity,” each of them a modern Sisyphus struggling to keep our cities from burying themselves in their own detritus" — Amanda Perry, Literary Review of Canada

"A humorous incursion… into the heart of a community of invisible workers… an unusual but vital examination of everyday actions with serious repercussions." — Les libraires

"This book is more than a personal story: it is a call to see in a new light the ones who go out every day into our streets so we can live in clean cities. Trash! reminds us that behind every anonymously collected garbage bag is a human being, with their own strengths and weaknesses and a story to tell. It’s a story that needs to heard." — Urbania