Garbology Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash

Name: Garbology Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
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ISBN: 9781583334348

ISBN-10: 1583334343

ISBN-13: 9781583334348

Edition: 2012

Authors: Edward Humes

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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…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/19/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Edward Humes is a veteran journalist, contributing to the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, and has written numerous books including Baby E. R. and the bestselling Mississippi Mud, Mean Justice, and No Matter How Loud I Shout. A graduate of Hampshire College and a Pulitzer Prize winner, he lives in Southern California with his family.



Introduction: 102 Tons (or: Becoming China's Trash Compactor)



The Biggest Thing we Make



Ain't No Mountain High Enough



Piggeries and Burn Piles: An American Trash Genesis



From Trash TV to Landfill Rodeos



The Last and Future Kingdom



Down to the Sea in Chips



Nerds vs. Nurdles



The Trash Detectives



The Trash Trackers



Decadence Now



The Way Back



Pick of the Litter



Chico and the Man



Green Cities and Garbage Death Rays



Put-Downs, Pickups and the Power of No


Epilogue: Garbage In, Garbage Out


Endnotes


Index