Garbology Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash

Name: Garbology Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
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ISBN: 9781583335239

ISBN-10: 1583335234

ISBN-13: 9781583335239

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Authors: Edward Humes

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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 trashThe 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. InGarbology, 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…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.37" wide x 8.00" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.550
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


Afterword


Endnotes


Index