"Conventional wisdom held that much of the trash in landfills would quickly decompose. Instead, organic materials, like food and lawn waste, were found mummified in the airless depths of sanitary landfills.

Items like hot dogs and lettuce that had been entombed for years looked as if they had just been recently thrown out. Decades-old newspapers were still intact and readable."

When he was presenting "garbology" and showed the picture of the hot dog wrapped in paper (his point was the biodegradable plastic bags were silly) then showed a disposable diaper from the 1980's - he said, "I know what you are thinking. You are thinking this guy has the most disgusting job in America. But see this picture [of the diaper] - we send these to a lab and they test what is inside for pathogens and see what else is living there. THAT guy has the most disgusting job in America".