Garbology - 9781583335239
Un libro in lingua di Edward Humes edito da Avery Pub Group, 2013
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A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of America’s biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy: our trash
The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime and $50 billion in squandered riches are rolled to the curb each year. But our bins are just the starting point for a strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century.
In Garbology, Edward Humes investigates 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’ Garbage Mountain landfill, the artists residing in San Francisco’s dump, and the family whose annual trash output fills not a dumpster or a trash can, but a single mason jar.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Garbology
- Sottotitolo: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Edward Humes
- Editore: Avery Pub Group
- Collana: Avery Pub Group (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 05 Marzo '13
- Genere: TECHNOLOGY and ENGINEERING
- Pagine: 325
- Dimensioni mm: 203 x 134 x 0
- EAN-13: 9781583335239