Ed Humes, the author of "Total Garbage," says he's "more optimistic having done this research than I was going in. I think creating the bigger tent that brings in communities you wouldn't normally ...

Edward Humes thinks a lot about garbage — and how we should deal with it. “Garbology,” the Pulitzer Prize winner’s book on “our dirty love affair with trash,” came out in 2012, and “Total Garbage: How ...