Garbage: The Saga of a Boss Scavenger in San Francisco
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (861 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1943859396 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 244 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
From there, he became a ‘boss scavenger’, married a garbage man’s daughter, and climbed the ranks of the Sunset Scavenger Company where he eventually took part in a corporate shakeup that made him the company’s president at only 31 years old. Stefanelli was trained to be a scavenger by his uncles in the 1940s and 50s at a time when rampant discrimination prevented Italian immigrants and their families from pursuing any other career. Garbage is a memoir of an exceptional trash collector from the streets and wharves of San Francisco. As one of the men at the helm of this booming industry, he became the chief advocate for increasingly innovative recycling and waste management practices in the Bay Area, and a foremost leader of environmentally-conscious business in the world. &
His writing style is often as raw as the subject matter he so masterfully describes.” —Silvio Manno, author of Charcoal and Blood: Italian Immigrants in Eureka, Nevada, and the Fish Creek Massacre. His memoirs make a substantial contribution to the history of the Italian-dominated solid waste industry in a unique and challenging environment such as the city of San Francisco. “Leonard ‘Lenny’ Stefanelli, a third generation Italian-American born in San Francisco in 1934, began his career as a ‘scavenger’ (garbage collector) in the garbage disposal business at age 19