Rubbish!

William Rathje is Director of the Garbage Project in the Bureau of Applied Reserach in Anthropology and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.Cullen Murphy is Managing Editor of and a frequent contributor to The Atlantic Monthly. He lives in Boston.

“A lucid and provocative book.”—New York Times Book Review“A mother lode of valuable information . . . There ain’t no flies on this book.”—Wall Street Journal“[Rubbish!] demolishes myths that hamper our ability to act sensibly; as a nice bonus, it entertains as it goes about its business.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review“Readers will be impressed by Rathje and Murphy’s delightfully fresh take on the human foibles and the garbage heaps of history.”—Washington Post Book World“An almost joyous iconoclasm about a vexatious subject.”—Boston Sunday Globe“[Rathje and Murphy] cull from the record astonishing data to counter many a myth. . . . A refreshing treatment of a subject not usually associated with refreshment.”—Kirkus Reviews“This lively study is an informative and often entertaining introduction to the science of garbology.”—Contemporary Sociology