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| 1990s || Garbage trucks technology changes dramatically.<ref name="History of the Garbage Man"/> Societies start wasting food more than ever in the developed world.<ref name="Solid Waste Management: Principles and Practice"/>
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| 2000s || The first World Conference of Waste Pickers is heldA waste picker movement consoilidates in the {{w|developing world}}, and the term "waste picker" emerges as a term to facilitate global communication.
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