You must be pretty brave to work in the weird and wild world of medical waste management. This stuff is not only clearly gross, covered in human bodily fluids and used or drained out medicine. This stuff is also quite dangerous and everyone, in particular those in the medical waste management business, knows it.

Still there are those people who strap themselves into rubber gloves and masks or sometimes fully insulated

body suits to handle the proper disposal of regulated medical waste. It is like these folks recognize that for the rest of the world to be safe from this garbage they simply must intervene. And thankfully for the rest of us

they do. Medical waste disposal as they say is a dirty job but someone has to do it.

In a way when I think about the heroes working in medical waste disposal I can’t help but think of my

grandfather. Pop-pop we called him. He worked in a sewage treatment facility. I remember visiting him at work and how gross it all seemed. You could lose your cookies in seconds of being in the place. My

grandfather didn’t need to over sell any of it. He would simply say (paraphrasing for foul language here): “It may be [waste] to you, but it’s my bread and butter.”