Garbology : our dirty love affair with trash / Edward Humes.
By: Humes, Edward
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TextPublisher: New York : Avery, c2012Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.Description: 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781583334348 (hardback); 1583334343 (hardback).Subject(s): Refuse and refuse disposal -- United States | Environmental engineering -- United States | Salvage (Waste, etc.) -- ChinaDDC classification: 628.4/40973 Summary: 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. 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.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 628.4 H883 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003135449 |
Includes bibliographical references.
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. 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.
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