Slipping on a banana peel is a cliché, a vintage vaudeville gag. But its origins weren’t just slapstick comedy. Before it became a comedy trope, banana peels menaced New Yorkers for decades. This is how bad the trash situation was in the early 1900s. Today, all we need to do is segregate waste and the trucks comes to pick it up certain days of the week like clockwork. But how did we get here? Thats exactly what I am going to talk about with my guests today. We have Patricia Strach and Kathleen Sullivan, authors of the book “politics of trash” on the show Today. Patricia is a professor in the Departments of Political Science and Public Administration & Policy at the state university of New York at Albany and Kathleen is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio university. Both experts in the field of political science public policy and law.

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About Patricia and Kathleen

https://www.ohio.edu/cas/sullivak

https://www.albany.edu/rockefeller/faculty/patricia-strach

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501766985/the-politics-of-trash/

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