Garbage Land
On the Secret Trail of Trash
by Elizabeth Royte · first published 2005
50% recommend50% neutral
Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away? In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on the wild adventure that begins once our trash hits the bottom of the can. Along the way, we meet an odor chemist who explains why trash smells so bad; garbage fairies and recycling gurus; neighbors
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For anybody interested in the totality of their garbage output, I can't recommend this book enough: https://www.amazon.com/Garbage-Land-Secret-Trail-Trash/dp/03...? I had my book club read this book, and so many times, for so many other books this books came up in conversation. Interesting facts: * Glass is recycled in order to grind…
on “Drowning in Garbage” ↗Yes, but that's a different kettle of fish. I'm reading Garbage Land at the moment and she mentions that garbage collectors have an incredibly dangerous job, more dangerous than policemen or firemen, for example. They're risking their lives to do a necessary job, and…
on “There are now more people over sixty-four than children younger than five” ↗