//'It's just a nightmare': Trash collectors overwhelmed by rising amount of household waste

'It's just a nightmare': Trash collectors overwhelmed by rising amount of household waste

Barney Shapiro, owner of Tenleytown Trash, never expected that he would turn to the Washington National Opera’s costume department to design gear for his employees. But when a member of his staff heard the National Opera was sewing masks for workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, he jumped at the chance.Shapiro’s staffers haul trash in Washington, D.C., and Maryland. Like the entire waste