World's Lumber Room
Author: first_name: Selina
last_name: Gaye
Language: English
Year: 1885

If this book were written today, it would be called "The Story of the World's Rubbish".<br /><br />That may not sound a promising subject for a book, but we are taken on a journey all over the world (and beyond) to explain the many varieties of dust and refuse - animal, vegetable and mineral - how it is made both by man and by nature, what happens to it, and why we need it. We find that recycling is nothing new: man has been doing it for centuries, and nature has been doing it for billions of ye