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"Journalist Heather Rogers guides us through the grisly, oddly fascinating underworld of trash. Excavating the history of rubbish handling from the 1800s - an era of garbage-grazing urban hogs and dump-dwelling rag pickers - to the present, with its high-tech "mega-fills" operated by multi-billion-dollar garbage corporations, Rogers investigates the roots of today's waste-addicted culture. Gone Tomorrow also explores the politics of recycling, which...
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English
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"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. Trash is America's largest export. Individually, we make more than four pounds a day, sixty-four tons across a lifetime. We make so much of it that trash dominates America's place in the global economy--now the most prized product made in the United States. In 2010, China's number-one export to the U.S. was computer equipment. America's two biggest exports...
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Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
©1997
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English
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Examines controversy surrounding the issues of toxic waste, garbage, and recycling efforts, using primary sources taken from a wide range of categories including periodicals, newspapers, books, government documents, and other publications.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"The true story of a garbage barge that didn't have a place to dock-- and was one of the events that led to the recycling movement."--Provided by publisher.
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Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Mike Rowe tackles some of his dirtiest and most dangerous jobs yet as he slogs through muck and mire in search of bloodworms, guts a mold-infested house damaged by Hurricane Katrina, packs explosives into the wall of a salt mine, and much more.
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English
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It is from the discards of former civilizations that archaeologists have reconstructed most of what we know about the past, and it is through their examination of today's garbage that William Rathje and Cullen Murphy inform us of our present. Rubbish! is their witty and erudite investigation into all aspects of the phenomenon of garbage. Rathje and Murphy show what the study of garbage tells us about a population's demographics and buying habits....
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Staff research report volume no. 100
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Ohio Legislative Service Commission
Pub. Date
1970
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English
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ERDA volume 76-71
Publisher
U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration
Pub. Date
1976.
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English