Picking Up by Robin Nagle is a comprehensive insider's view of life as a (DSNY) sanitation worker in New York City. Perhaps the most dangerous and under-appreciated job that we all rely on for the health of ourselves and our cities. These men and women trudge through our streets at all times of day and in all types of weather in order for us to have our waste magically and reliably disappear from our curb without much of a second thought as to who's picking it up and where it ends up. In New York City, as I'm guessing is the case in other pedestrian based cities, many of these workers have to deal with dog urine and other disgusting instances that could easily be avoided if citizens were to have a better understanding of the labor and effort involved in the daily tasks of a sanitation worker. Thank you to Robin Nagle for expanding my understanding of and appreciation for sanitation services. We'd be a big pile of disease-ridden muck without them! Sunday, April 10, 2016
Picking Up by Robin Nagle (book)
Picking Up by Robin Nagle is a comprehensive insider's view of life as a (DSNY) sanitation worker in New York City. Perhaps the most dangerous and under-appreciated job that we all rely on for the health of ourselves and our cities. These men and women trudge through our streets at all times of day and in all types of weather in order for us to have our waste magically and reliably disappear from our curb without much of a second thought as to who's picking it up and where it ends up. In New York City, as I'm guessing is the case in other pedestrian based cities, many of these workers have to deal with dog urine and other disgusting instances that could easily be avoided if citizens were to have a better understanding of the labor and effort involved in the daily tasks of a sanitation worker. Thank you to Robin Nagle for expanding my understanding of and appreciation for sanitation services. We'd be a big pile of disease-ridden muck without them! 
