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Garbology - Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash (Paperback)
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes readers on a surprising
tour of America's biggest export, our most prodigious product, and
our greatest legacy: our trash
The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a
lifetime and $50 billion in squandered riches are rolled to the
curb each year. But our bins are just the starting point for a
strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also
represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century. In
"Garbology," Edward Humes investigates trash--what's in it; how
much we pay for it; how we manage to create so much of it; and how
some families, communities, and even nations are finding a way back
from waste to discover a new kind of prosperity. Along the way, he
introduces a collection of garbage denizens unlike anyone you've
ever met: the trash-tracking detectives of MIT, the
bulldozer-driving sanitation workers building Los Angeles' Garbage
Mountain landfill, the artists residing in San Francisco's dump,
and the family whose annual trash output fills not a dumpster or a
trash can, but a single mason jar. "Garbology" reveals not just
what we throw away, but who we are and where our society is headed.
Waste is the one environmental and economic harm that ordinary
working Americans have the power to change--and prosper in the
process.
"Garbology" is raising awareness of trash consumption and is
sparking community-wide action through One City One Book programs
around the country.
It is becoming an increasingly popular addition to high school and
college syllabi and is being adopted by many colleges and
universities for First Year Experience programs.
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