Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, (Paperback)

from satyridae

It's rare for me to finish a book and carry it straightaway to my computer to order all the books in its bibliography, but in this case, that's exactly what I did. It's one of those books that helps one to understand that everything one knows about, oh, say, recycling is completely and utterly wr...

from carterchristian1

A kind of "This is My Life" book. Consider today's trash, just waiting to join the rest of the world's trash, trash that a short time ago was something probably new and sitting on a shelf. Nontrash becomes trash, much as we do. A valuable set of bones, brain, skin, suddenly just dust to be tossed...

from cabegley

Guaranteed to make you think about the way you consume and discard. Royte weaves her research well with her own story of examning her trash and trying to follow its journey once it leaves her curb. She ran into a lot of dead ends (visiting landfills is apparently not as easy as just driving in th...

from Darrol

Raising one's consciousness of the stuff we throw away. The efforts to recycle. The somewhat puny effect these efforts have on the total waste stream. More can be done buy not buying in the first place. But of course this is not possible often enough to solve the waste issue. Need more efforts at...

from roses7184

Granted this is a little outdated in its stats in today's world, but that doesn't change the fact that this is an extremely powerful read! I am so fascinated about where our garbage goes, and how the whole ecosystem functions. Do the recyclables I send out actually get recycled? Where does the gr...