Most chapters meet monthly with prominent Garbologists as speakers.
There are regional and annual meetings and seminars where members and guests can talk garbage for days on end and get wasted in hospitality rooms sponsored by manufacturers serving this important industry. Technical committees devote their time and knowledge to developing codes and standards for the different classes of garbage and trash. They also debate eternally whether morticians shall be admitted as full members or shall remain in associate status. Although I have been a GE for many years, I have a Class 1 Bone to pick with the organization. I wish they would stick to their mission of maintaining and improving the profession of Garbage Engineering and not venture into unrelated commercial ventures.