Garbology by Edward Humes

Garbology by Edward Humes

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.

Garbology reveals not just what we throw away, but who we are and where our society is headed. Waste is the one environmental and economic harm that ordinary working Americans have the power to change--and prosper in the process.

Garbology is raising awareness of trash consumption and is sparking community-wide action through One City One Book programs around the country.
It is becoming an increasingly popular addition to high school and college syllabi and is being adopted by many colleges and universities for First Year Experience programs.

Edward Humes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author whose previous works include Garbology, Mississippi Mud, and No Matter How Loud I Scream, which won the PEN Award. He divides his time between Seattle and Los Angeles.

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ISBN 13	9781583334348
ISBN 10	1583334343
Title	Garbology
Author	Edward Humes
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2012-04-19
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Commended for Books for a Better Life (Green) 2012
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