SCHOLARS TRASH LIBRARY

Cohen, William A. and Ryan Johnson, eds. Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Humes, Edward. Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash. New York: Avery, 2013.

Johnson, Walter. River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2013.

Moore, Charles and Cassandra Phillips. Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Ocean. Avery Trade: New York, NY, 2012.

Nagle, Robin. Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.

Packard, Vance. The Waste Makers. 1966; Ig Publishing: Brooklyn, NY, 2011.

Pellow, David. Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2002.

Rathje, William and Cullen Murphy. Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage. University of Arizona Press: New York, 2001.

Rogers, Heather. Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage. New Press: New York, NY, 2006.

Royte, Elizabeth. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash. New York: Back Bay Books, 2006.

Strasser, Susan. Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash. Holt Paperbacks: New York, NY, 2000.

TRASH FILMS

Bag It (Suzan Beraza, 2010). Documentary. Jeb Berrier, a regular American man, makes a pledge to stop using plastic bags at the grocery store and has his life completely changed.

Gravity (Alfonoso Cuarón, 2013). Feature film about a chain of disasters set off by collision with a debris field in space, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.

Terra Blight (Isaac Brown, 2012). A feature-length documentary exploring America’s consumption of computers and the hazardous waste we create in pursuit of the latest technology.

Trash (Stephen Daldry, 2014). Set in an unnamed Third World country, this feature film tells the story of three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump and soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.

Trash Dance (Andrew Garrison, 2012). Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks, and in the unseen men and women who pick up our trash. Filmmaker Andrew Garrison follows Orr as she rides along with Austin sanitation workers on their daily routes to observe and later convince them to perform a most unlikely spectacle.

Trashed (Candida Brady, 2012). Jeremy Irons travels around the world to see beautiful locations tainted by pollution.

WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008). A computer-animated science-fiction comedy, the story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up an abandoned, waste-covered Earth far in the future. He falls in love with another robot named EVE, who also has a programmed task, and follows her into outer space on an adventure that changes the destiny of both his kind and humanity.

Waste Land (Lucy Walker, 2010). The film chronicles artist Vik Muniz, who travels to the world’s largest landfill, Jardim Gramacho outside Rio de Janeiro, to collaborate with a lively group of catadores of recyclable materials, who find a way to the most prestigious auction house in London via the surprising transformation of refuse into contemporary art.