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Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Ed Humes
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- 9781583335239
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- 9781583335239
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- Book Title
- Garbology : Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Travel, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Environmental / Waste Management, Environmental Economics, Environmental / General, Special Interest / Ecotourism
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 10 oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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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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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1583335234
ISBN-13
9781583335239
eBay Product ID (ePID)
150646056
Product Key Features
Book Title
Garbology : Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Environmental / Waste Management, Environmental Economics, Environmental / General, Special Interest / Ecotourism
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Travel, Business & Economics
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
10 oz
Additional Product Features
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Twelfth Grade
Reviews
"Humes offers plenty of surprising, even shocking, statistics...An important addition to the environmentalist bookshelf." -- Kirkus Reviews "Unlike most dirty books, this one is novel and fresh on every page. You'll be amazed." --Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth "Edward Humes takes us on a real romp through the waste stream. Garbology is an illuminating, entertaining read that ultimately provides hope and tips for a less wasteful future. This book will make you want to burn, or at least recycle, your trash can!" --Jonathan Bloom, author of American Wasteland "In this well-written and fast-paced book, Ed Humes delves into the underbelly of a consumer society--its trash. What he finds is so startling and infuriating, you will never think about 'waste' in the same way again." -Samuel Fromartz, author of Organic, Inc. and Editor-in-Chief of the Food & Environment Reporting Network "Humes's argument isn't a castigation of litterbugs. It's a persuasive and sometimes astonishing indictment of an economy that's become inextricably linked to the increasing consumption of cheap, disposable stuff--ultimately to our own economic, political, and yes, environmental peril... his arguments for the rank inefficiency of our trash-happy, terminally obsolescent economy are spot on." -- Bookforum
Dewey Decimal
628.4/40973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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