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Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash

by Elizabeth Royte · 2005

▶ On Spotify Apple Books — not confirmed

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?

Refuse and Refuse DisposalPoliticsSociologySanitary And Municipal EngineeringSocial ScienceEnvironmental StudiesSociology - UrbanNew York

About Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash

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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