All I've been thinking about all week is garbage. I mean, I just can't stop thinking about it.

I'm Maggie Sivitt, Curious City's digital and engagement producer. And that was a clip from the 1989 film Sex, Lies, and Videotape. In the opening scene, Andy McDowell's character tells her therapist that she's having these visions of garbage cans

overflowing endlessly. I've gotten real concerned over what's going to happen with all the garbage.

I've also been thinking a lot about garbage lately. And it seems like many of our listeners have,

too. We've gotten all kinds of garbage-related questions, from people wondering how

quickly garbage trucks take to fill up, to what it's like to collect garbage for the city.

You're going to see roadies and, yeah, so if you're scared of that, you can't be scared

because they're scared of you. They're going to rob. So I hopped on a truck with an all-women

crew on the job.

But first, I met up with one listener to take a look at her trash and answer some of your

garbage-related questions.

That's coming up.

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Recently, I met up with Curious City question asker Diane Judge.

And you can see my melon rinds and my corn husks and a few currents there.

Let's say looks like a shriveled pepper.

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