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Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Humes, Edward; Humes, Ed
by Humes, Edward; Humes, Ed | HC | Good
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781583334348
- Book Title
- Garbology : Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Travel, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Science
- Topic
- Environmental / Waste Management, Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Sociology / General, Environmental / General, General
- Item Weight
- 16.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1583334343
ISBN-13
9781583334348
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111601565
Product Key Features
Book Title
Garbology : Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Environmental / Waste Management, Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Sociology / General, Environmental / General, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-001701
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"In this well-written and fast-paced book, Ed Humes delves into the underbelly of a consumer society--its trash. What he finds is so startling and infuriating, you will never think about 'waste' in the same way again." -Samuel Fromartz, author of Organic, Inc. and Editor-in-Chief of the Food & Environment Reporting Network, "Edward Humes takes us on a real romp through the waste stream. Garbology is an illuminating, entertaining read that ultimately provides hope and tips for a less wasteful future. This book will make you want to burn, or at least recycle, your trash can!" --Jonathan Bloom, author of American Wasteland, "Humes offers plenty of surprising, even shocking, statistics...An important addition to the environmentalist bookshelf." -- Kirkus Reviews, "In this well-written and fast-paced book, Ed Humes delves into the underbelly of a consumer society-its trash. What he finds is so startling and infuriating, you will never think about 'waste' in the same way again." Samuel Fromartz, author of Organic, Inc. and Editor-in-Chief of the Food & Environment Reporting Network, "Humes's argument isn't a castigation of litterbugs. It's a persuasive and sometimes astonishing indictment of an economy that's become inextricably linked to the increasing consumption of cheap, disposable stuff-ultimately to our own economic, political, and yes, environmental peril... his arguments for the rank inefficiency of our trash-happy, terminally obsolescent economy are spot on." - Bookforum, "Unlike most dirty books, this one is novel and fresh on every page. You'll be amazed." --Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth, Edward Humes takes us on a real romp through the waste stream. Garbology is an illuminating, entertaining read that ultimately provides hope and tips for a less wasteful future. This book will make you want to burn, or at least recycle, your trash can!, "Humes's argument isn't a castigation of litterbugs. It's a persuasive and sometimes astonishing indictment of an economy that's become inextricably linked to the increasing consumption of cheap, disposable stuff -- ultimately to our own economic, political, and yes, environmental peril... his arguments for the rank inefficiency of our trash-happy, terminally obsolescent economy are spot on." - Bookforum, Humes offers plenty of surprising, even shocking, statistics…An important addition to the environmentalist bookshelf., "Humes's argument isn't a castigation of litterbugs. It's a persuasive and sometimes astonishing indictment of an economy that's become inextricably linked to the increasing consumption of cheap, disposable stuff--ultimately to our own economic, political, and yes, environmental peril... his arguments for the rank inefficiency of our trash-happy, terminally obsolescent economy are spot on." -- Bookforum, Humes's argument isn't a castigation of litterbugs. It's a persuasive and sometimes astonishing indictment of an economy that's become inextricably linked to the increasing consumption of cheap, disposable stuff -- ultimately to our own economic, political, and yes, environmental peril... his arguments for the rank inefficiency of our trash-happy, terminally obsolescent economy are spot on., "Humes offers plenty of surprising, even shocking, statistics…An important addition to the environmentalist bookshelf." - Kirkus Reviews, "Unlike most dirty books, this one is novel and fresh on every page. You'll be amazed." -Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth, "Edward Humes takes us on a real romp through the waste stream. Garbology is an illuminating, entertaining read that ultimately provides hope and tips for a less wasteful future. This book will make you want to burn, or at least recycle, your trash can!" -Jonathan Bloom, author of American Wasteland
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
628.4/40973
Grade To
UP
Synopsis
Humes reveals what this world of trash looks like, how we got here, and what some families, communities, and other countries are doing to find a way back from a world of waste., 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 people in the world. But that trash doesn't 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 Prize-winning author Edward Humes investigates the trail of that 102 tons of 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' immense Garbage Mountain landfill, the artists in residence at San Francisco's 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 number-one export is scrap--America as China's trash compactor--or 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 change--and prosper in the process.
LC Classification Number
TD788.H86 2012
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