Garbology :
Humes, Edward.
Garbology : our dirty love affair with trash / Edward Humes. - 1st trade pbk. ed. - New York Avery 2013 - 325 p, ill., 20 cm
"With a new afterword"---cover.
This narrative science book about trash 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. The real secret at the heart of this book may well be the potential for a happy ending buried in our landfill. Waste is the one environmental and economic harm that ordinary working Americans have the power to change and prosper in the process.
9781583335239
Refuse and refuse disposal--United States.
Environmental engineering--United States.
Salvage (Waste, etc.)--China
TD788 / .H86 2013
Garbology : our dirty love affair with trash / Edward Humes. - 1st trade pbk. ed. - New York Avery 2013 - 325 p, ill., 20 cm
"With a new afterword"---cover.
This narrative science book about trash 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. The real secret at the heart of this book may well be the potential for a happy ending buried in our landfill. Waste is the one environmental and economic harm that ordinary working Americans have the power to change and prosper in the process.
9781583335239
Refuse and refuse disposal--United States.
Environmental engineering--United States.
Salvage (Waste, etc.)--China
TD788 / .H86 2013