Junkyard Planet Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

Name: Junkyard Planet Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
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ISBN: 9781608197910

ISBN-10: 1608197913

ISBN-13: 9781608197910

Edition: 2014

Authors: Adam Minter

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When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday’s newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world—where your trash becomes, literally, someone’s treasure. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter offers eye-opening insights into how American refuse drives a vast $250 billion industry that reaches every corner of the globe, with profound effects on both our economy and our environment. Minter is a veteran journalist with unmatched access to and insight on the waste industry—but even better, he has the explanatory gifts and an eye for detail worthy of a John McPhee or William Langewiesche. He takes us not merely behind the scenes, but into the bowels of giant…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 11/12/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Map


A Note on Numbers


Introduction



Making Soup



Grubbing



Honey, Barley



The Intercontinental



The Backhaul



The Grimy Boomtown Heat



Big Waste Country



Homer



Plastic Land



The Reincarnation Department



The Golden Ingot



The Coin Tower



Hot Metal Flows



Canton



Ashes to Ashes, Junk to Junk


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Index