Sorting Before Hauling: How Household Junk Gets Categorized and Where It Goes in Oregon City’s South End
Most households collect more stuff than they realize. It builds up slowly in garages, sheds, spare rooms, basements, and the corners of yards, and one day the pile becomes a project. The first instinct is often to treat it all as one lump of junk. In practice, almost nothing about a good cleanout is lumpy. […]