Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash - Edward Humes -2015 (Business) [Audiobook] (miok)

Garbology - Edward Humes -2015
Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash



By: Edward Humes
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 12-27-15
Categories: Business, Money & Finance, Economics
Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo



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.

©2012 Edward Humes (P)2016 Tantor





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