Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future-Fast Shipping

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Title: Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Author: Oliver Franklin-Wallis

ISBN: 9780306827112

Publisher: Hachette Books

Published: 2023

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Condition Note: New from the publisher

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER, THE GUARDIAN, and KIRKUS REVIEWS An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy–
and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry–the secretive multi-billion dollar world that underpins the modern economy, quietly profiting from what we leave behind. In India, he meets the waste-pickers on the front line of the plastic crisis. In the UK, he journeys down sewers to confront our oldest–and newest–waste crisis, and comes face-to-face with nuclear waste. In Ghana, he follows the after-life of our technology and explores the global export network that results in goodwill donations clogging African landfills. From an incinerator to an Oklahoma ghost-town, Franklin-Wallis travels in search of the people and companies that really handle waste–and on the way, meets the innovators and campaigners pushing for a cleaner and less wasteful this mesmerizing, thought-provoking, and occasionally terrifying investigation, Oliver Franklin-Wallis tells a new story of humanity based on what we leave behind, and along the way, he shares a blueprint for building a healthier, more sustainable world–before we’re all buried in trash.