Title
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash
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A Pulitzer Prizewinning Journalist Takes Readers On A Surprising Tour Of The World Of Garbage.Take A Journey Inside The Secret World Of Our Biggest Export, Our Most Prodigious Product, And Our Greatest Legacy: Our Trash. Its The Biggest Thing We Make: The Average American Is On Track To Produce A Whopping 102 Tons Of Garbage Across A Lifetime, $50 Billion In Squandered Riches Rolled To The Curb Each Year, More Than That Produced By Any Other People In The World. But That Trash Doesnt Just Magically Disappear; Our Bins Are Merely The Starting Point For A Strange, Impressive, Mysterious, And Costly Journey That May Also Represent The Greatest Untapped Opportunity Of The Century.In Garbology, Pulitzer Prizewinning Author Edward Humes Investigates The Trail Of That 102 Tons Of Trashwhats 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 Youve Ever Met: The Trashtracking Detectives Of Mit, The Bulldozerdriving Sanitation Workers Building Los Angeles Immense Garbage Mountain Landfill, The Artists In Residence At San Franciscos Dump, And The Family Whose Annual Trash Output Fills Not A Dumpster Or A Trash Can, But A Single Mason Jar.Garbology Digs Through Our Epic Piles Of Trash To Reveal Not Just What We Throw Away, But Who We Are And Where Our Society Is Headed. Are We Destined To Remain The Country Whose Numberone Export Is Scrapamerica As Chinas Trash Compactoror Will The Country That Invented The Disposable Economy Pioneer A New And Less Wasteful Path? The Real Secret At The Heart Of Garbology May Well Be The Potential For A Happy Ending Buried In Our Landfill. Waste, Humes Writes, Is The One Environmental And Economic Harm That Ordinary Working Americans Have The Power To Changeand Prosper In The Process.
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