Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
Autor Ed Humes, Edward Humesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2013 – vârsta de la 18 ani
A Pulitzer Prizeߝwinning 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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781583335239
ISBN-10: 1583335234
Pagini: 325
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Avery Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 1583335234
Pagini: 325
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Avery Publishing Group
Notă biografică
Edward Humes is a Pulitzer Prizeߝwinning journalist and author whose eleven previous books include Force of Nature, Eco Barons, and the PEN Awardߝwinning No Matter How Loud I Shout. He lives in Seal Beach, California.
Descriere
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of America's biggest export, the most prodigious product, and the greatest legacy: trash. The 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.