The Tunnel Club and the fridge (p. 670)
An infestation of feral hamsters in the waste-rich terrain of metro Boston, to say nothing of the clutter-tunnelled E.T.A. grounds, would be an almost grand-scale public-health disaster, would cause simply no end of adult running-in-circles and knuckle-biting, and would consume megacalories of displaced pre-adolescent stress for the E.T.A. players.
Context
The feral-hamster bogey paragraph: adult panic as literal circular motion, in "waste-rich" terrain, with disaster consumed as fuel by the kids — circles, waste, and energy-conversion in one sentence.