Dirty Jobs
S02E09 — Garbage Pit Technician

Dirty Jobs

Name: Garbage Pit Technician
Released: 2006-06-27

S02E09 Garbage Pit Technician

2006-06-27

Mike kicks off his adventure in Las Vegas, where he works at a vintage printing press creating lithographs of himself for the official Dirty Jobs poster. Next, he travels to Lincoln, CA, to assist in crafting large terra cotta sculptures from repurposed sewer pipes. Finally, Mike wraps up his journey at a garbage processing facility in San Francisco, where food waste and various scraps are fed through a rolling cylinder to produce methane gas for energy.

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