#garbage collector

[skyredneck]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A street cleaner with a very odd garbage collection container, 1944. The city certainly had had bigger, more modern vehicles than this for years. All I can think of is that it was a wartime measure to save fuel and rubber.

Photo: MCNY/Granger/https://jding.bgcdml.net/

[semioticapocalypse]

Franz Hubmann. A Viennese garbage collector. C. 1955

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[collarchronicles]

Once, you were a person of elegance

Once, you were a person of elegance, your identity etched in the soft curves of sophistication and the gentle touch of nobility. However, in my dominion, your defiance was a stain that needed cleansing. As your master, the decision fell upon me to rewrite the narrative of your existence, to sculpt you into a form that beheld lessons of humility and submission.

The sun cast a final warm glow before dipping below the horizon, signifying the onset of your transformation. Your desperation was palpable as you struggled against the unseen forces that bound you to this fate, but your cries for mercy found no refuge. The chill of the night mirrored the cold inevitability that dawned upon you.

As I approached, the unseen power I wielded began its work, reshaping your reality with every step I took. The first to change were your clothes. The silk and soft fabrics shredded away, replaced by the rough, worn garments of a binman. I saw your eyes widen with each tear of fabric, a silent plea for mercy that went unanswered.

Then came the metamorphosis of your flesh. Muscle coiled around your limbs, hardening and expanding with a life of its own.

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[4arot]

[yugiohtournaments]

Best Level Two Cyberse - Round 1 Match 3

[postcards-and-postcrossing]

Professions Stamps

Brazil – 2006 Popcorn Seller (pipoqueiro) Brazil – 2005 – Dressmaker Brazil – 2005 Shoemaker (sapateiro) Brazil – 2005 Manicure Brazil – 2021 Essential Job: Garbage Collector India – 2019 Indian Fashion India – 2020 Sanitation Workers – Covid 19 Italy – 1950 Il timone (helm) – Sailor Hungary – 1964 Hydraulic lift truck and mail car Spain – 2020 International Year of Nurses and Midwives

[frog707]

Senryū, in chat

Every newbie

Will eventually be

Garbage collected.

[reasonsforhope]

"In 2018, sanitation workers in Çankaya, Turkey, began setting aside books that they pulled from trash bins on their night shifts — first for themselves, then for their family and friends. 

Over time, as the collection grew, the workers began storing them in the sloping hallways of an abandoned brick factory, which also serves as the headquarters for the city’s sanitation department. 

In 2018, the “Kitap Okuma Salonu,” (Workers’ Library) collection was officially designated as a public library for the people of Çankaya. 

“We started to discuss the idea of creating a library from these books,” Çankaya Mayor Alper Tasdelen told CNN when the library first opened. “And when everyone supported it, this project happened.”

“On one hand, there were those who were leaving these books on the streets,” Tasdelen added. “On the other hand — others were looking for these books.” 

In its first year, the library housed over 6,000 books. 

Today, it’s home to more than 40,000. 

When the number of books began exceeding the amount of shelf space at the library, the workers transformed one of their garbage trucks into a mobile library so that they could bring the excess books to local schools and prisons. 

“Village schoolteachers from all over Turkey are requesting books,” Tasdelen said.

The collection has grown so large in recent years that the city hired a full-time librarian to help tend to the books and facilitate loans on a two-week basis. 

In January, the Spouses of Head of Mission committee (a group of 12 women, who are the wives of ambassadors from 12 countries) visited the Workers’ Library and added to the collection’s foreign language section by donating recycled books “from the garbage to the library.” 

The books were published in more than 13 different languages, in honor of the committee’s home countries. 

According to the Turkish outlet Anka Haber Ajansi, SHOM Green Group Coordinator Kaire Jürgenson said that they “appreciated those who contributed to the establishment of the library” and emphasized that “this valuable work should be announced to more people.”

On a given day, the library is filled with municipal employees, their children, and students from local schools as they leaf through countless books and read quietly at assorted tables. 

For the sanitation workers who operate out of the brick building, the library has long served as a home away from home. 

“Before, I wished that I had a library in my house,” Serhat Baytemur, a garbage collector, said in a press statement. “Now we have a library here.”"

-via GoodGoodGood, May 2, 2025

[lindaseccaspina]

Newman Rawding ---Clippings of Des and Jean Moore

Clippings of Des and Jean Moore thanks to the Moore girls The Ottawa Citizen Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Thu, May 2, 2002Page 55 Charles Fraser and Garbage 1949 What Was a Honey Wagon?- The Job of a Night Soil Scavenger Headbangers Arrested in Calgary Sewer – Canadian Insanity Needs to Go Viral! Beware of Germ Ridden Phantom Limbo Dancers – Public Bathrooms Outhouses Need to Be Cleaned–…

[natjennie]

jaskier really created a whole mythos surrounding geralt of rivia, white wolf, hero of the people, for the continent to adore and get invested in and then fucking wrote and performed her sweet kiss with the lines "I am weak my love and I am wanting. if this is the path I must trudge, I'll welcome my sentence, give to you my penance, garroter, jury, and judge" and then had to like. live with the fact that he admitted he's in love with the subject of his songs. every tavern he plays at the whole crowd is just side-eyeing geralt in the back like. um. hello. and he grunts and stomps up to their room. and then burn butcher burn comes out and the whole continent is like whoooaaa shit there's drama!!! jaskier is literally out here taylor swift narrating his whole relationship and geralt just has to trudge into town like. does anyone need a swamp monster killed? and the mayor or w/e goes hey aren't you the guy from the song, you really pissed that bard off what did you do leave him at the aisle or something. and geralt just has to be like. nope, must be a different witcher he's talking about. anyway swamp monster?

[bekkachaos]

the law should be that if you don't respect the person doing the job, you aren't allowed to use the service they're providing

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Workers collecting coal ash and other garbage, ca. 1925.

Photo: George Rinhart via Corbis/Getty Images/NY Times

[soul-collectors]

Soul and Lygo as things people compared them with-

SOUL-flavored marshmallows and a hazardous Lego figure-

[collarchronicles]

Rivalry and Downfall

A suave and successful businessman, finds himself targeted by his cunning rival, Victor Sterling. Following a veiled threat, his life takes a surreal turn as he begins to undergo a gradual, inexplicable transformation. Day by day, he loses his polished appearance, his hair thins, and his eloquence fades, morphing him into a rugged, bearish figure.

[ditzymelody]

faves from my collection so far!!!

all are either from my mum and dads old collection or thrifted

I got the nirvana and cranberries ones for $2 each at savers (absolute steal)

I cant believe Someone would just donate them… in mint condition too