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000453529 1001_ $$aHumes, Edward.
000453529 24510 $$aGarbology :$$bour dirty love affair with trash /$$cEdward Humes.
000453529 260__ $$aNew York :$$bAvery,$$cc2012.
000453529 300__ $$a277 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm.
000453529 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000453529 5050_ $$a102 tons, (or: becoming China's trash compactor) -- The Biggest Thing We Make. Ain't no mountain high enough ; Piggeries and burn piles: an American trash genesis ; From trash TV to landfill rodeos ; The last and future kingdom ; Down to the sea in chips ; Nerds vs. murdles -- The Trash Detectives.  The trash trackers ; Decadence now -- The Way Back. Pick of the litter ; Chico and the man ; Green cities and garbage death rays ; Put-downs, pickups and the power of no -- Garbage in, garbage out.
000453529 520__ $$aIn this narrative science book about trash, the author,  a journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. Trash is America's largest export. Individually, we make more than four pounds a day, sixty-four tons across a lifetime. We make so much of it that trash dominates America's place in the global economy, now the most prized product made in the United States. In 2010, China's number one export to the U.S. was computer equipment. America's two biggest exports were paper waste and scrap metal. Somehow, a country that once built things for the rest of the world has transformed itself into China's trash compactor. In this book the author reveals what this world of trash looks like, how we got here, and what some families, communities, and other countries are doing to find a way back from a world of waste. Highlights include: Los Angeles's sixty-story garbage mountain, so big and bizarrely prominent that it has spawned its own climate, habitat, and tour business. The waste trackers of MIT, whose "smart trash" has exposed the secret life and dirty death of what we throw away. China's garbage queen, Zhang Yin, who started collecting scrap paper in the 1990s and turned it into a multibillion-dollar business exporting American trash to make Chinese products to sell back to Americans. Artisan Bea Johnson, whose family has found that generating less waste has translated into more money, less debt, and more leisure time. As Wal-Mart aims for zero waste strategies and household recycling has become second nature, interest in trash has clearly reached new heights. From the quirky to the astounding, this book weighs in with remarkable true tales from the front lines of the war on waste.
000453529 520__ $$a"Narrative science book about trash"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000453529 650_0 $$aRefuse and refuse disposal$$zUnited States.
000453529 650_0 $$aEnvironmental engineering$$zUnited States.
000453529 650_0 $$aSalvage (Waste, etc.)$$zChina.
000453529 85200 $$bgen$$hTD788$$i.H86$$i2012
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