Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It's befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet in transpor
Throwaway nation: the ugly truth about American garbage
β Scribed by Dondero, Jeff
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Year
- 2019;2012
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Trash talkin -- Wasting our 02 -- Waterways waste watch -- Losing land -- Space junk -- From farm to fish to table to trash -- Trendy to trash -- Sweet and sour charity -- Paper waste chase -- Plastics a blessing and a curse -- Packaging thinking inside and outside the box -- E-waste : what we couldn't do without, we don't know what do with -- Opening Pandora's pharmacy -- The impaired industry of producing power -- Industry of waste -- Government senseless super spending pork barrel politics and earmarks of extraneous expenditures -- The 40 hour work week waste -- Pet waste it's no poop -- Goof fortune in garbage.
β¦ Table of Contents
Trash talkin --
Wasting our 02 --
Waterways waste watch --
Losing land --
Space junk --
From farm to fish to table to trash --
Trendy to trash --
Sweet and sour charity --
Paper waste chase --
Plastics a blessing and a curse --
Packaging thinking inside and outside the box --
E-waste : what we couldn't do without, we don't know what do with --
Opening Pandora's pharmacy --
The impaired industry of producing power --
Industry of waste --
Government senseless super spending pork barrel politics and earmarks of extraneous expenditures --
The 40 hour work week waste --
Pet waste it's no poop --
Goof fortune in garbage.
β¦ Subjects
Refuse and refuse disposal--Social aspects;Refuse and refuse disposal--Social aspects--United States;Salvage (Waste, etc.);Salvage (Waste, etc.)--United States;Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects -- United States;Salvage (Waste, etc.) -- United States;Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects;United States
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