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Garbology : Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Garbology : Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash about?

**A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage.** Take a journey inside the secret world of our biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy: our trash. It’s the biggest thing we make: The average American is on track to produce a whopping 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime, $50 billion in squandered riches rolled to the curb each year, more than that produced by any other people in the world. But that trash doesn’t just magically disappear; our bins are merely the starting point for a strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century. In __Garbology__, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Edward Humes investigates the trail of that 102 tons of 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’

Who reads Garbology : Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash?

Author

Edward Humes

Publisher

Avery Publishing Group, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101580370

Category

science

Subjects

Engineering, Economics, Fiction

Rating

4.05 / 5 (1,148 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14