Wasteland : the secret world of waste and the urgent search for a cleaner future / Oliver Franklin-Wallis.

By: Franklin-Wallis, OliverMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Simon & Shuster, 2023Edition: First US editionISBN: 9781398527706Subject(s): Refuse and refuse disposal | Waste products | Waste minimization | Factory and trade waste | NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection | Factory and trade waste | Refuse and refuse disposal | Waste minimization | Waste products | Refuse and refuse disposal | Waste productsDDC classification: 363.728 Other classification:
Contents:
Introduction: The tipping floor -- DIRTY. The mountain -- Save scrap for victory! -- The world's garbage can -- Up in smoke -- Used -- FOUL. The cure for cholera -- A third of everything -- Breakdown -- TOXIC. Unholy water -- Control, delete -- The dam breaks -- Hazard -- Epilogue: Precious.
Summary: "An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy--and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?"--Summary: Franklin-Wallis takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis. He exposes the hidden world that enables our modern economy: multi-billion-dollar industries that quietly profit from what we leave behind. It's a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away? Franklin-Wallis shares a blueprint for building a healthier, more sustainable world-- before we're all buried in trash. -- adapted from jacket
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-379) and index.

Introduction: The tipping floor -- DIRTY. The mountain -- Save scrap for victory! -- The world's garbage can -- Up in smoke -- Used -- FOUL. The cure for cholera -- A third of everything -- Breakdown -- TOXIC. Unholy water -- Control, delete -- The dam breaks -- Hazard -- Epilogue: Precious.

"An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy--and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?"--

Franklin-Wallis takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis. He exposes the hidden world that enables our modern economy: multi-billion-dollar industries that quietly profit from what we leave behind. It's a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away? Franklin-Wallis shares a blueprint for building a healthier, more sustainable world-- before we're all buried in trash. -- adapted from jacket

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