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Several days a week, Brandi Blue pulls her truck under a giant spigot spewing used toilet paper flushed from millions of toilets across Los Angeles. Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.

When her truck is full, she hauls the 80,000 pound load 47 miles north to a landfill in Simi Valley. There, she puts on her gear -- white Tyvek suit, goggles and boots -- and steps right into the landfill to dump her truck.

On a good day, it's dirty, smelly work. On a bad day?

"You have trash flying at you from all directions. You've got debris and contaminants that blow on your body and get into your pores," Blue says.


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