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June 17 – National Garbage Man Day

Posted on June 17, 2018

Keeping our cities, towns, and rural areas clean and safe.

What could be more important?

And yet people in the waste management industry are often looked down on, as if they - or at least their jobs - were trash because they deal with trash!

Whenever there is a garbage-collection strike, oh, boy, THEN people realize how desperately important these jobs are!!!

Today's holiday helps us to recognize this important job sector without having the discomfort of bags of rotting, smelly, rat-infested garbage piling up!!

By the way, although it is called "Garbage MAN Day," there are women who work in waste management, as well. And nowadays special machinery and vehicles make upper body strength less important, so people of all varieties can participate in these jobs. Note that the logo (seen at the top of the article) shows a woman and a man.

Loads of little kids love watching garbage trucks in action. And I love the fact that there are so many different shapes and colors:

Including all the colors at once:

Also on this date:

Eat Your Vegetables Day

Iceland's National Day

Artist M. C. Escher's birthday

Stewart's Root Beer Day

Anniversary of the “discovery” of muskoxen

Bunker Hill Day

World Day to Combat Desertification

Father's Day in Guatemala and El Salvador

Father's Day in the U.S.A.

(Third Sunday in June)

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June holidays

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Historical anniversaries in June

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September 3 – Another Look Unlimited Day

Posted on September 3, 2013

Today we are urged to stop and give another look to whatever we were about to throw away.

Could that thing be recycled? Reused? Made into art? Donated to charity? Given to a friend? Sold on e-Bay or in a yard sale?

I have two thoughts here:

First, it is very dangerous to look too hard at everything you want to throw away, because you can become paralyzed. I can think of a way to use almost everything that qualifies as trash or garbage in either a craft or a science experiments.

But as great as that would be for the landfills, it would be terrible for my house and side yard and garage!

However...

Second, it's very worthwhile to set aside perfectly fine things for a once-a-month drop-off at a charity/thrift store, rather than filling up landfills with old-but-working items and barely-worn-but-outgrown clothes. Also, many people give gifts in December...so it's the perfect time to be collecting items to be repurposed or upcycled!