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Junkyard planet : travels in the billion-dollar trash trade

text Junkyard planet : travels in the billion-dollar trash trade

Summary
"When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junky... Read more
Contents
Making soup -- Grubbing -- Honey, barley -- The intercontinental -- The backhaul -- The grimy boomtown heat -- Big waste country -- Homer -- Plastic land -- The reincarnation department -- The golden ingot -- The coin tower -- Hot metal flows -- C... Read more
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284 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Publisher
2013

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