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Trash!: A Garbageman’s Story is a memoir and social exposé by Montreal garbageman Simon Paré-Poupart. Drawing on more than two decades of work on garbage trucks, the book presents waste collection as both a physically punishing trade and a revealing window into modern consumer society. Paré-Poupart combines firsthand labor experience with a sociology-trained perspective, so the book is not only about one worker’s life but also about the systems that produce, hide, and normalize waste. It reflects on the camaraderie, danger, and rough humor of sanitation work while also criticizing overconsumption, labor invisibility, and the social marginalization of people who handle society’s leftovers. The memoir’s purpose is to make readers confront the material reality of garbage and the human labor behind its removal, rather than imagining that waste simply disappears.