Mike Peabody, Garbage Man and Recycling. Barre, Vermont
Mike Peabody of Barre, Vermont, is a program coordinator at the Additional Recyclables Collection Center (ARCC) of the Central Vermont Waste Management District, one of the few hard-to-recycle centers in the country. He talks about how he learned his trade, the cultural and ecological importance of working with hard-to-recycle materials, some of the characters and challenges he deals with at work, and why he\u2019s proud to be involved in waste and recycling work. Upbeat and full of great stories about recycling in his New England community, Peabody was interviewed by Archie Green Fellow Virginia Nickerson as part of her occupational history project \u201cTrash Talk: Workers in Vermont's Waste Management Industry,\u201d which documented the work experiences of the men and women who collect garbage and recycle trash throughout the Green Mountain State.