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04245aam a22006858a 4500 001 4484B0CA941C11E1A03C60E96AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20190208010440 008 120228s2012 nyu b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2012001701 020 $a 1583334343 (hardback) 020 $a 9781583334348 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)764346938 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d SILO $d BDX $d YDXCP $d VKC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a TD788 $b .H86 2012 082 00 $a 628.4/40973 $2 23 084 $a TRV000000 $a SOC026000 $a TRV000000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Humes, Edward. 245 1 $a Garbology : $b our dirty love affair with trash / $c Edward Humes. 260 $a New York : $b Avery, $c c2012. 263 $a 1204 300 $a 277 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "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. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Narrative science book about trash"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 650 0 $a Refuse and refuse disposal $z United States. 650 0 $a Environmental engineering $z United States. 650 0 $a Salvage (Waste, etc.) $z China. 650 7 $a TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Waste Management. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a TRAVEL / General. $2 bisacsh 856 42 $3 Cover image $u ftp://ppftpuser:welcome@ftp01.penguingroup.com/Booksellers and Media/Covers/2008_2009_New_Covers/9781583334348.jpg 941 $a 23 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611023320.0 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214020315.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20220728015503.0 952 $l TKPE492 $d 20211118022100.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722033410.0 952 $l TZPC572 $d 20201017013129.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200528051429.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508020345.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200303021735.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110030914.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20190328023827.0 952 $l DRPC413 $d 20180714022537.0 952 $l IBAX173 $d 20180307023911.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418090658.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20150926015001.0 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20150404012528.0 952 $l JLPF081 $d 20150213095401.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20140514020936.0 952 $l TOPB062 $d 20130305010409.0 952 $l OUAX845 $d 20120821012247.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20120710010925.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20120703014236.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20120621060825.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4484B0CA941C11E1A03C60E96AFF544E 994 $a C0 $b IW9Initiate Another SILO Locator Search