TY - BOOK AU - Franklin-Wallis,Oliver TI - Wasteland: the secret world of waste and the urgent search for a cleaner future SN - 0306827115 AV - TD791 .F73 2023 U1 - 363.72/8 23/eng/20230703 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Hachette Books KW - Factory and trade waste KW - Refuse and refuse disposal KW - Waste minimization KW - Waste products N1 - "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 N2 - "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?"--; 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 ER -