num_pages: 294
description: A brilliant exploration into the soiled heart of the American trash can.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?
language: English
title: Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
titlecomplete: Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
genres: Nature, History, Sociology, Sustainability, Microhistory, Environment, Science, Journalism, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 1745
publisher: Little, Brown and Company