Garbology : our dirty love affair with trash / Edward Humes.
By: Humes, Edward.
Material type: 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 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 628.4 H883 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003135449 |
Browsing Davenport Library shelves, Shelving location: Circulating Collection, Collection: Print-Circulating Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
628.114 F136 2015 Toms River : a story of science and salvation / | 628.4 C762 2013 The zero waste solution : untrashing the planet one community at a time / | 628.4 C762 2013 c.2 The zero waste solution : untrashing the planet one community at a time / | 628.4 H883 2012 Garbology : our dirty love affair with trash / | 629.13 B328 Boeing in peace and war / | 629.13092 Ea72l The sound of wings : the life of Amelia Earhart / | 629.2 M745 Toyota production system : practical approach to production management / |
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.
There are no comments on this title.