Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
Elizabeth Royte
294 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 031615461X
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Language: English
Publish: April 8, 2016
EnvironmentHistoryJournalismMicrohistoryNatureNonfictionScienceSociologySustainabilityUrban Planning
A brilliant exploration into the soiled heart of the American trash can.
Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels … But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away?