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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Garbology
    sub title: our dirty love affair with trash
  name:
    name part: Humes, Edward.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. Trash is America's largest export. Individually, we make more than four pounds a day, sixty-four tons across a lifetime. We make so much of it that trash dominates America's place in the global economy, now the most prized product made in the United States. In 2010, China's number-one export to the U.S. was computer equipment. America's two biggest exports were paper waste and scrap metal. Somehow, a country that once built things for the rest of the world has transformed itself into China's trash compactor. In Garbology, Edward Humes reveals what this world of trash looks like, how we got here and what some families, communities and other countries are doing to find a way back from a world of waste. Highlights include Los Angeles's sixty-story garbage mountain, so big and bizarrely prominent that it has spawned its own climate, habitat and tour business. The waste trackers of MIT, whose "smart trash" has exposed the secret life and dirty death of what we throw away. China's garbage queen, Zhang Yin, who started collecting scrap paper in the 1990s and turned it into a multibillion-dollar business exporting American trash to make Chinese products to sell back to Americans. Artisan Bea Johnson, whose family has found that generating less waste has translated into more money, less debt and more leisure time. As Wal-Mart aims for zero-waste strategies and household recycling has become second nature, interest in trash has clearly reached new heights. From the quirky to the astounding, Garbology weighs in with remarkable true tales from the front lines of the war on waste.
  note: Edward Humes.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Refuse and refuse disposal
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Environmental engineering
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Salvage (Waste, etc.)
    geographic: China
  classification: TD788 .H86 2012
  classification: 628.4/40973
  identifier: 9781583334348 (hardback)
  identifier: 1583334343 (hardback)
  identifier: 2012001701
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120228
    record change date: 20151202170933.0
    record identifier: in00002759757