Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash

A Pulitzer Prize–winning 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. It’s 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 pe...

By Edward Humes
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Avery; 56436th edition (April 19, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1583334343
ISBN-13: 978-1583334348
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1 x 9.3 inches
Amazon Rank: 83957
Format: PDF ePub TXT book

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Edward Humes introduces his readers to what is called garbology or the study of trash. Mr. Humes sets himself the objective to answer three questions in his study of trash:1. What is the nature and cost of the 7.1 pounds of trash that each American

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