Recycling rage comes from spending $500 a year on trash haulers who pick through your garbage and leave most of it behind.

Contracts between the trash haulers and the teamsters expired a week ago Friday.

Yesterday, the trash haulers left the gate open and the dog escaped.

For other trash haulers, the company name is rooted in family history, like a medieval coat of arms.

But then the garbage, dumped by private trash haulers, returned.

It's not even a trash hauler at all!

Susan Travis, a 41-year-old trash hauler, said she was eager to get back to work.

Her mother had told her stories about the trash haulers' strike, back in the 1970s.

Often, factories that were closing gave him things, because it was cheaper than paying trash haulers, he said.

Three months later, the landfill is back in business with a new roster of trash haulers and truckers.