{"product_id":"9780306827112-wasteland-the-secret-world-of-waste-and-the-urgent-search-for-a-cleaner-future","title":"Franklin - Wallis Oliver - Wasteland The Secret World Of Waste And The Urgent Search For A Cleaner Future - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Wasteland The Secret World Of Waste And The Urgent Search For A Cleaner Future\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Franklin - Wallis Oliver\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Hachette Books\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780306827112\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 400 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 7\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Franklin - Wallis Oliver","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49594202620209,"sku":"IN-G-9780306827112","price":23.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780306827112.jpg?v=1754876095","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780306827112-wasteland-the-secret-world-of-waste-and-the-urgent-search-for-a-cleaner-future","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}