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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'immense G

Who reads Garbology : Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash?

Author

Edward Humes

Publisher

© 2013From GARBOLOGY by Edward Humes. Summarized by arrangement with Avery, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, a Penguin Random House Company

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781583334348

Category

science

Subjects

Engineering, Economics, Fiction

Rating

4.05 / 5 (93 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14