Every Single Thing Is Future Trash

by Zoe Pollock

The Believer's Alex Carp interviews Robin Nagle, anthropologist-in-residence at New York City's Department of Sanitation. The entire read is both utterly obvious and totally fascinating for how little we think of our collective trash:

It's an avoidance of addressing mortality, ephemerality, the deeper cost of the way we live. We generate as much trash as we do in part because we move at a speed that requires it. I don't have time to take care of the stuff that surrounds me...