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Garbology (the study of trash) (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 months ago by Plum@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Garbology is also used as an overtechnical term for waste management, with refuse workers called garbologists, first seen in Australia in the 1960s.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 points 3 months ago

In Australia, scientists who study trash are presumably called garbonomists instead.