Is There a Genra Where People Dig Through Grain Stumps and Evaluate Their Trash?

Is there a genra where people go into garbage stumps and evaluate our trash? Well, tiy definitely wouldn't be evaluating it. There's this arizona like sociologist, i think is what his profession is called. An he evaluates people's trash, and like to determined things about, like, modern america based on her garbage. Which is the only actually cratic like way to evaluate people is through their garbage.