American household garbage increases by 25% over the holidays, but it doesn't have to tax the area's stressed trash disposal ...

“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.

Take a look inside your garbage can. How much garbage does your family throw away each day? Each week? Where does all of that trash go? It's tempting to think that the trash we throw away actually ...