“Trash has the power to unmask the exploitation of nature that is crystallized in all the commodities. Garbage reveals the market’s relation to nature; it teases out the environement al politics hidden inside manufactured goods. Because of this, transforming the way our society conceives of and treats the everyday substance of garbage would have profound effects in other areas of ecological crisis, such as dying oceans, ozone depletion, global warming, and the proliferation of toxic chemicals throughout our food, water and air.” — Heather Rogers, “Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage.”