Garbology
Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
by: Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction author Edward Humes
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, more than that produced by any other people in the world. But 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.
COVERED:
- history of waste management in the USA
- what's in our trash
- how much trash costs
- how and why we create more trash than ever before
- future of waste management
- case studies of trash denizens from all walks of life
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We're discussing this book at Zero Waste Week Book Club! Grab a copy to read, and come to Book Club on March 31st at 6pm at Cypress & Grove to chat with us about it! More information available on our instagram @unplasticgnv
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