Wasteland

the secret world of waste and the urgent search for a cleaner future
Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Book - 2023

"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?"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Franklin-Wallis, Oliver (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Hachette Books, 2023.
Edition:First US edition.
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505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a 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 
650 0 |a Refuse and refuse disposal. 
650 0 |a Waste products. 
650 0 |a Waste minimization. 
650 0 |a Factory and trade waste. 
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