Borrowed & Returned

Throwing It Out


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We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ask what happens to library books when they get too old. Finally, we take a trip to East Harlem, where one sanitation worker spent 30 years creating an archive of New Yorkers' trash.   Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/throwing-it-out 
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