It's Earth Week, here's how consumers and companies are trying to improve waste management across the country.

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“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.