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Franklin-Wallis, Oliver.
Wasteland
[Boundless].
Unabridged.
Hachette Book Group USA,
2023.
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.
Format: Acoustik.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Waste Management; SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental); NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
General Adult.
Importer Version: 2016-03-11.01 Import Date: 2024-10-23 20:00:03.
Nature
Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Science
Environmental Science (see also Chemistry)
Environmental.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Environmental
Waste Management.
Harper, Chris,
narrator.
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