Garbology

our dirty love affair with trash

English language

Published June 10, 2012 by Avery.

ISBN:
978-1-58333-434-8
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OCLC Number:
857139087

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"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. Trash is America's largest export. Individually, we make more than four pounds a day, sixty-four tons across a lifetime. We make so much of it that trash dominates America's place in the global economy--now the most prized product made in the United States. In 2010, China's number-one export to the U.S. was computer equipment. America's two biggest exports were paper waste and scrap metal. Somehow, a country that once built things for the rest of the world has transformed itself into China's trash compactor. In Garbology, Edward Humes reveals what this world of trash looks like, how we got here, and what some families, communities, and other countries are doing to find a way back from a world of waste. Highlights include: Los Angeles's sixty-story garbage mountain, so big and bizarrely prominent that it has …

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Subjects

  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
  • Salvage (Waste, etc.)
  • TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Waste Management
  • Refuse and refuse disposal
  • TRAVEL / General
  • Environmental engineering

Places

  • United States
  • China