The Law Of The Garbage Truck

Author : David J. Pollay
Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1402788754

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The Law of the Garbage Truck by David J. Pollay Pdf

In The Law of the Garbage Truck, David J. Pollay shows us that by refusing to let others dump their "garbage" (negativity, anger, resentment) on us and letting it "pass by" instead, we become happier and more successful, both personally and professionally. And when we stop dumping garbage on others, we improve our relationships, strengthen our businesses and bring our communities together. This remarkable book shows us how to use this Law and helps us to avoid getting dumped on by rude, thoughtless and angry people, stop reliving the negative and fearing the future and focus on what can be controlled, not the negative things that can't be. It will help increase productivity, respect and cooperation and allow readers to gain the courage to enjoy every day and make a difference. Includes two powerful, insightful quizzes designed to help determine how much garbage you are accepting and how much you are dumping.

Author : Robin Nagle
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466836730

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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City by Robin Nagle Pdf

America's largest city generates garbage in torrents—11,000 tons from households each day on average. But New Yorkers don't give it much attention. They leave their trash on the curb or drop it in a litter basket, and promptly forget about it. And why not? On a schedule so regular you could almost set your watch by it, someone always comes to take it away. But who, exactly, is that someone? And why is he—or she—so unknown? In Picking Up, the anthropologist Robin Nagle introduces us to the men and women of New York City's Department of Sanitation and makes clear why this small army of uniformed workers is the most important labor force on the streets. Seeking to understand every aspect of the Department's mission, Nagle accompanied crews on their routes, questioned supervisors and commissioners, and listened to story after story about blizzards, hazardous wastes, and the insults of everyday New Yorkers. But the more time she spent with the DSNY, the more Nagle realized that observing wasn't quite enough—so she joined the force herself. Driving the hulking trucks, she obtained an insider's perspective on the complex kinships, arcane rules, and obscure lingo unique to the realm of sanitation workers. Nagle chronicles New York City's four-hundred-year struggle with trash, and traces the city's waste-management efforts from a time when filth overwhelmed the streets to the far more rigorous practices of today, when the Big Apple is as clean as it's ever been. Throughout, Nagle reveals the many unexpected ways in which sanitation workers stand between our seemingly well-ordered lives and the sea of refuse that would otherwise overwhelm us. In the process, she changes the way we understand cities—and ourselves within them.

Author : David J. Pollay
Publisher : Union Square & Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Happiness
ISBN : 1454905182

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The Law of the Garbage Truck by David J. Pollay Pdf

Syndicated columnist and business consultant Pollay explains his life philosophy: by letting other people's "garbage"--their negativity--simply "pass by," and not dumping garbage on others, people can become happier and more successful, both personally and professionally.

Author : Elizabeth Royte
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780316030731

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Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte Pdf

Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away? In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on the wild adventure that begins once our trash hits the bottom of the can. Along the way, we meet an odor chemist who explains why trash smells so bad; garbage fairies and recycling gurus; neighbors of massive waste dumps; CEOs making fortunes by encouraging waste or encouraging recycling-often both at the same time; scientists trying to revive our most polluted places; fertilizer fanatics and adventurers who kayak amid sewage; paper people, steel people, aluminum people, plastic people, and even a guy who swears by recycling human waste. With a wink and a nod and a tightly clasped nose, Royte takes us on a bizarre cultural tour through slime, stench, and heat-in other words, through the back end of our ever-more supersized lifestyles. By showing us what happens to the things we've "disposed of," Royte reminds us that our decisions about consumption and waste have a very real impact-and that unless we undertake radical change, the garbage we create will always be with us: in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we consume. Radiantly written and boldly reported, Garbage Land is a brilliant exploration into the soiled heart of the American trash can.

Author : Josan Wright Callender,Mattie Ruth Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999610759

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The Happy Little Garbage Truck by Josan Wright Callender,Mattie Ruth Wright Pdf

A little garbage truck finds that doing a good job has its own rewards.

Author : Roger Priddy
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780312511067

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My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy Pdf

This is the perfect book for kids who love trucks. On the big, sturdy board pages, they'll discover bright, bold photographs of all different kinds of trucks, from farm trucks to fire trucks to construction vehicles. Each has their name written underneath, so that children can learn what they're called, build their truck vocabulary, and start to develop word and picture association.

Author : Kathleen M. Millar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822372073

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Reclaiming the Discarded by Kathleen M. Millar Pdf

In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials. While the figure of the scavenger sifting through garbage seems iconic of wageless life today, Millar shows how the work of reclaiming recyclables is more than a survival strategy or an informal labor practice. Rather, the stories of catadores show how this work is inseparable from conceptions of the good life and from human struggles to realize these visions within precarious conditions of urban poverty. By approaching the work of catadores as highly generative, Millar calls into question the category of informality, common conceptions of garbage, and the continued normativity of wage labor. In so doing, she illuminates how waste lies at the heart of relations of inequality and projects of social transformation.

Author : Andrea Zimmerman,David Clemesha
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780060271398

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Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman,David Clemesha Pdf

I dump it in I smash it down I drive around the trashy town Meet Mr. Gilly. He cleans up Trashy Town. He does it with a big smile and a big truck--which is sure to make him a hero with all the children in the neighborhood. David Clemesha and Andrea Zimmerman have created a rhythmic, repeatable refrain that will roll off the lips of every child. Dan Yaccarino's dynamic art puts the zip in Mr. Gilly's stride and adds style and charm to trash collection. 2000 Notable Children's Books (ALA)

Author : P. Alex Linley,Susan Harrington,Nicola Garcea
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780195335446

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Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work by P. Alex Linley,Susan Harrington,Nicola Garcea Pdf

This volume examines what positive psychology offers to our understanding of key issues in working life today. The chapters focus on such topics as strengths, leadership, human resource management, employee engagement, communications, well-being, and work-life balance.

Author : Andy Mulligan
Publisher : David Fickling Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375898433

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Trash by Andy Mulligan Pdf

In an unnamed Third World country, in the not-so-distant future, three “dumpsite boys” make a living picking through the mountains of garbage on the outskirts of a large city. One unlucky-lucky day, Raphael finds something very special and very mysterious. So mysterious that he decides to keep it, even when the city police offer a handsome reward for its return. That decision brings with it terrifying consequences, and soon the dumpsite boys must use all of their cunning and courage to stay ahead of their pursuers. It’s up to Raphael, Gardo, and Rat—boys who have no education, no parents, no homes, and no money—to solve the mystery and right a terrible wrong. Andy Mulligan has written a powerful story about unthinkable poverty—and the kind of hope and determination that can transcend it. With twists and turns, unrelenting action, and deep, raw emotion, Trash is a heart-pounding, breath-holding novel.

Author : John H. F. Woodrooffe
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780309155182

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Review of Canadian Experience with the Regulation of Large Commercial Motor Vehicles by John H. F. Woodrooffe Pdf

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 671: Review of Canadian Experience with the Regulation of Large Commercial Motor Vehicles examines the process used in Canada to harmonize heavy truck size and weight regulations across the country. The report provides insights on how lessons learned from the Canadian experience might be applied in the United States.

Author : Julie Sze
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262264792

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Noxious New York by Julie Sze Pdf

Examines the culture, politics, and history of the movement for environmental justice in New York City, tracking activism in four neighborhoods on issues of public health, garbage, and energy systems in the context of privatization, deregulation, and globalization. Racial minority and low-income communities often suffer disproportionate effects of urban environmental problems. Environmental justice advocates argue that these communities are on the front lines of environmental and health risks. In Noxious New York, Julie Sze analyzes the culture, politics, and history of environmental justice activism in New York City within the larger context of privatization, deregulation, and globalization. She tracks urban planning and environmental health activism in four gritty New York neighborhoods: Brooklyn's Sunset Park and Williamsburg sections, West Harlem, and the South Bronx. In these communities, activism flourished in the 1980s and 1990s in response to economic decay and a concentration of noxious incinerators, solid waste transfer stations, and power plants. Sze describes the emergence of local campaigns organized around issues of asthma, garbage, and energy systems, and how, in each neighborhood, activists framed their arguments in the vocabulary of environmental justice. Sze shows that the linkage of planning and public health in New York City goes back to the nineteenth century's sanitation movement, and she looks at the city's history of garbage, sewage, and sludge management. She analyzes the influence of race, family, and gender politics on asthma activism and examines community activists' responses to garbage privatization and energy deregulation. Finally, she looks at how activist groups have begun to shift from fighting particular siting and land use decisions to engaging in a larger process of community planning and community-based research projects. Drawing extensively on fieldwork and interviews with community members and activists, Sze illuminates the complex mix of local and global issues that fuels environmental justice activism.

Author : A. Jan Marcussen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:39980713

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National Sunday Law by A. Jan Marcussen Pdf

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Ocean Studies Board,Committee on the United States Contributions to Global Ocean Plastic Waste
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0309458854

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Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Ocean Studies Board,Committee on the United States Contributions to Global Ocean Plastic Waste Pdf

An estimated 8 million metric tons (MMT) of plastic waste enters the world's ocean each year - the equivalent of dumping a garbage truck of plastic waste into the ocean every minute. Plastic waste is now found in almost every marine habitat, from the ocean surface to deep sea sediments to the ocean's vast mid-water region, as well as the Great Lakes. This report responds to a request in the bipartisan Save Our Seas 2.0 Act for a scientific synthesis of the role of the United States both in contributing to and responding to global ocean plastic waste. The United States is a major producer of plastics and in 2016, generated more plastic waste by weight and per capita than any other nation. Although the U.S. solid waste management system is advanced, it is not sufficient to deter leakage into the environment. Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste calls for a national strategy by the end of 2022 to reduce the nation's contribution to global ocean plastic waste at every step - from production to its entry into the environment - including by substantially reducing U.S. solid waste generation. This report also recommends a nationally-coordinated and expanded monitoring system to track plastic pollution in order to understand the scales and sources of U.S. plastic waste, set reduction and management priorities, and measure progress.

Author : Larry VanderLeest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : 1936243091

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Garbio by Larry VanderLeest Pdf

VanderLeest combines a clever, witty writing style with first hand knowledge of a dangerous and under-appreciated occupation. Garbio was a great read - full of interesting,humorous and even dark stories and a heart-felt compassion for its real life characters.