Franklin - Wallis Oliver
Franklin - Wallis Oliver - Wasteland The Secret World Of Waste And The Urgent Search For A Cleaner Future - Hardcover
Franklin - Wallis Oliver - Wasteland The Secret World Of Waste And The Urgent Search For A Cleaner Future - Hardcover
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Description: Named A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW Yorker THE Guardian and Kirkus Reviews An award - winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away? In Wasteland journalist Oliver Franklin - Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry the secretive multi - billion dollar world that underpins the modern economy quietly profiting from what we leave behind. In India he meets the waste - pickers on the front line of the plastic crisis. In the UK he journeys down sewers to confront our oldest and newest waste crisis and comes face - to - face with nuclear waste. In Ghana he follows the after - life of our technology and explores the global export network that results in goodwill donations clogging African landfills. From an incinerator to an Oklahoma ghost - town Franklin - Wallis travels in search of the people and companies that really handle waste and on the way meets the innovators and campaigners pushing for a cleaner and less wasteful future. With this mesmerizing thought - provoking and occasionally terrifying investigation Oliver Franklin - Wallis tells a new story of humanity based on what we leave behind and along the way he shares a blueprint for building a healthier more sustainable world before we re all buried in trash.
Title: Wasteland The Secret World Of Waste And The Urgent Search For A Cleaner Future
Author(s): Franklin - Wallis Oliver
Publisher: Hachette Books
Barcode: 9780306827112
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/18/2023
Description: Named A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW Yorker THE Guardian and Kirkus Reviews An award - winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away? In Wasteland journalist Oliver Franklin - Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry the secretive multi - billion dollar world that underpins the modern economy quietly profiting from what we leave behind. In India he meets the waste - pickers on the front line of the plastic crisis. In the UK he journeys down sewers to confront our oldest and newest waste crisis and comes face - to - face with nuclear waste. In Ghana he follows the after - life of our technology and explores the global export network that results in goodwill donations clogging African landfills. From an incinerator to an Oklahoma ghost - town Franklin - Wallis travels in search of the people and companies that really handle waste and on the way meets the innovators and campaigners pushing for a cleaner and less wasteful future. With this mesmerizing thought - provoking and occasionally terrifying investigation Oliver Franklin - Wallis tells a new story of humanity based on what we leave behind and along the way he shares a blueprint for building a healthier more sustainable world before we re all buried in trash.
Title: Wasteland The Secret World Of Waste And The Urgent Search For A Cleaner Future
Author(s): Franklin - Wallis Oliver
Publisher: Hachette Books
Barcode: 9780306827112
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/18/2023
