This article reconsiders how the organic, the symbolic, and matter are entangled by examining the relation between ethnographic accounts and non-human inscriptions. It aims at developing a way of engaging with the dynamism of residual matter at the conceptual level to expanding the range of possibilities of research on waste. What we call garbography places the focus on the mattering of waste as a mode of inquiry, assuming that we can portray how waste expresses itself to our senses. However, the gesture of going beyond the anthropocentric bias unsettles the predominant meaning-centric understanding of fieldwork. To practice garbography entails paying attention to the expressiveness of residual matter as an asemic inscription or graphein of sorts. It is thus to be involved in different exercises of tracing and speaking for material signs that might not be directly translatable to verbal language, yet allow us to venture into strange, stinky realms.