Junkyard planet : travels in the billion-dollar trash trade

Junkyard planet : travels in the billion-dollar trash trade / Adam Minter.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Minter, Adam, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Refuse disposal industry.
Refuse and refuse disposal.
Scrap materials.
Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Holy Cross Note:"This paperback edition published 2015."
Table of Contents:
  • Map
  • A note on numbers
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Canton
  • Ashes to ashes, junk to junk
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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