After hundreds of lonely years, a waste management robot finds a new purpose in life. With only a cockroach for a friend, he finds true love in another robot sent on a mission to Earth to see if it is safe for human life.

"From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America's most devastating environmental disasters. Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny and Barbara Quimby thought they had found a slice of the American dream when they and their families moved onto the quiet streets of Love Canal, a picturesque middle-class hamlet by Niagara Falls in...

Eleven specifically defined residential solid waste collection systems were evaluated to determine, insofar as possible, the significance of specific system parameters on productivity, efficiency, and costs. These parameters included point of collection, frequency of collection, crew size, equipment type, collection methodology, incentive system, type of storage container, and amount of waste generated. Four crews in each of the 11 systems were studied...