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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Humes, Edward.     Subjects     Refuse and refuse disposal -- United States.     Refuse and refuse disposal.     Environmental engineering.     Salvage (Waste, etc.) -- China.     Waste minimization.     Recycling (Waste, etc.)     Browse Catalog     by author:      Humes, Edward.       by title:      Garbology : our dirt...       by call number:      628.4409 H922g     Search the Web     Humes, Edward.     Refuse and refuse disposal -- United States.     Refuse and refuse disposal.     Environmental engineering.     Salvage (Waste, etc.) -- China.     Waste minimization.     Recycling (Waste, etc.)       MARC Display

Garbology : our dirty love affair with trash / Edward Humes. by Humes, Edward. Avery, c2012. Call #: 628.4409 H922g Subjects Refuse and refuse disposal -- United States.   Refuse and refuse disposal.   Environmental engineering.   Salvage (Waste, etc.) -- China.   Waste minimization.   Recycling (Waste, etc.) ISBN:  9781583334348 (hc.) 1583334343 (hc.) Description:  277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-268) and index. Summary:  "A Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 Garbology, Edward 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. 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, Garbology weighs in with remarkable true tales from the front lines of the war on waste. "--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 628.4409 H922g Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 628.4409 H922g Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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