Man honored for 50 years of garbage collection

Thórólfur Valgeir Thorleifsson was honored by Mayor of Reykjavík Vilhjálmur Th. Vilhjámsson at a special ceremony yesterday, for having collected the city’s garbage for 50 years.

Thorleifsson began working as a garbage collector in Reykjavík in January 1957 at the age of 16. Garbage collection was not Thorleifsson’s first choice of vocation, he said, but he had quit school and didn’t have many other options. RÚV reports.

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