Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

Waste: A Memoir of a Life Fighting for a Cleaner Future by Catherine Coleman Flowers is an unforgettable story of one woman's tireless fight against environmental injustice.

Flowers, a MacArthur genius and environmental justice activist, grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, where she witnessed firsthand the devastating effects of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice on basic sanitation.

Through her powerful and moving account, Flowers reveals how too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of waste, leading to Third World conditions not just in Alabama but across America.

With inspiring stories of her evolution from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative, Flowers shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards - not only those of poor minorities.

Don't miss this unforgettable and thought-provoking memoir that will leave you inspired to take action and fight for a cleaner future.