There is nothing that symbolizes small-town life like pilgrimages to the landfill, and for many, those trips are the much-anticipated anchor to a week of household chores.

The transfer station is a place where information is shared among people outside of their regular social circles, and where the standard wardrobe of work gloves and dump clothes levels the conversational playing field. It is also a secular substitute for those who don’t attend church on Sunday mornings. Some people atone for their sins at the altar, others at the bottle recycling bin.

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