For the past few years I've been hoping to take a tour of garbage and today's the day. A NYC sanitation dept. worker, Nelson Molina, saved interesting items from the trash over his 34 year career. These have been housed in a "museum" in Harlem. Tours are very infrequent and usually given out in a lottery which I recently won. Here's a link.
https://www.sanitationfoundation.org/m11-treasures-in-the-trash