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Junkyard planet : travels in the billion-dollar trash trade / Adam Minter. by Minter, Adam, 1970- Bloomsbury Press, 2013. Call #: 363.728 M667j Subjects Refuse disposal industry.   Refuse and refuse disposal.   Scrap materials.   Recycling industry.   Recycling (Waste, etc.) ISBN:  9781608197910 (hc.) 1608197913 (hc.) Edition:  First U.S. edition. Description:  284 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm. Notes:  Includes index. Contents:  Making soup -- Grubbing -- Honey, barley -- The intercontinental -- The backhaul -- The grimy boomtown heat -- Big waste country -- Homer -- Plastic land -- The reincarnation department -- The golden ingot -- The coin tower -- Hot metal flows -- Canton -- Ashes to ashes, junk to junk. Summary:  "When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter--veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner--travels deeply into a vast, often hidden, multibillion-dollar industry that's transforming our economy and environment"--Dust jacket flap. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 363.728 M667j Core Collection - Adult Transit Request Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 363.728 M667j Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction 363.728 M667j Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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