Essential Workers During the Coronavirus Pandemic for The Washington Post

William Widmer April 6, 2020

New Orleans, LA - March 24, 2020 - Isaac Brooks works with fellow employees to load residential trash into the back of a Metro Services Group garbage truck. The company has begun furnishing extra protective equipment to their employees in an effort

New Orleans, LA - March 24, 2020 - Isaac Brooks (51) prepares for the early morning garbage collection shifts at Metro Service Group, one of three companies that manage residential trash collection in the city of New Orleans. Brooks has worked in th

New Orleans, LA - March 24, 2020 - Isaac Brooks (51) hands a stack of clean cotton handkerchiefs up to a truck driver in the pre-dawn hours at Metro Service Group, one of three companies that manage residential trash collection in the city of New Or

New Orleans, LA - March 24, 2020 - Garbage collectors empty residential garbage cans into the back of a Metro Service Group truck in the 7th Ward of New Orleans. The company has begun furnishing extra rubber gloves, facemasks, and handkerchiefs to

New Orleans, LA - March 24, 2020 - Isaac Brooks (51) pulls on a new pair of rubber gloves after spraying his steering wheel down with disinfectant. Brooks is a supervisor at Metro Service Group, one of three companies that manage residential trash c

New Orleans, LA - March 24, 2020 - Bryan Bowman empties residential garbage cans into the back of a Metro Service Group truck in the 7th Ward of New Orleans. His employer has begun furnishing extra rubber gloves, facemasks, and handkerchiefs to thei

New Orleans, LA - March 24, 2020 - Bryan Bowman (L) and Landrius Cooley empty residential garbage cans into the back of a Metro Service Group truck in the 7th Ward of New Orleans. His employer has begun furnishing extra rubber gloves, facemasks, and

New Orleans, LA - March 24, 2020 - Bryan Bowman wipes sweat from his brown while collecting residential trash in the 7th Ward of New Orleans. His employer, Metro Service Group, has begun furnishing extra rubber gloves, facemasks, and handkerchiefs t

I spent a day with New Orleans sanitation workers as they collected garbage during the coronavirus shutdown for a Washington Post feature on essential workers around the globe:

“Working in the Wake of Coronavirus”

Essential Workers During the Coronavirus Pandemic for The Washington Post

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