num_pages: 355
description: A social history of trash traces America's evolution in just a century from a country that reused everything and lived intimately close to filth, to a nation obsessed with disposability and cleanliness. 12,500 first printing.
language: English
title: Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
titlecomplete: Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
genres: Cultural, Microhistory, Environment, Science, Nonfiction, Sustainability, Research, Sociology, History, Society
ratings_count: 418
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Abel Wolman Award
publisher: Metropolitan Books