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Wasteland : the secret world of waste and the urgent search for a cleaner future / Oliver Franklin-Wallis.

By: Publisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First US editionDescription: 392 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0306827115
  • 9780306827112
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.72/8 23/eng/20230703
LOC classification:
  • TD791 .F73 2023
Contents:
Introduction: The tipping floor -- DIRTY. The mountain -- Save scrap for victory! -- The world's garbage can -- Up in smoke -- Used -- FOUL. The cure for cholera -- A third of everything -- Breakdown -- TOXIC. Unholy water -- Control, delete -- The dam breaks -- Hazard -- Epilogue: Precious.
Summary: "An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy--and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: Franklin-Wallis takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis. He exposes the hidden world that enables our modern economy: multi-billion-dollar industries that quietly profit from what we leave behind. It's a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away? Franklin-Wallis shares a blueprint for building a healthier, more sustainable world-- before we're all buried in trash. -- adapted from jacket

"First published in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2023"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-379) and index.

Introduction: The tipping floor -- DIRTY. The mountain -- Save scrap for victory! -- The world's garbage can -- Up in smoke -- Used -- FOUL. The cure for cholera -- A third of everything -- Breakdown -- TOXIC. Unholy water -- Control, delete -- The dam breaks -- Hazard -- Epilogue: Precious.

"An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy--and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?"-- Provided by publisher.

Franklin-Wallis takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis. He exposes the hidden world that enables our modern economy: multi-billion-dollar industries that quietly profit from what we leave behind. It's a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away? Franklin-Wallis shares a blueprint for building a healthier, more sustainable world-- before we're all buried in trash. -- adapted from jacket

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