"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 Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter-- vetera…
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"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 Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter-- vetera…
Adam Minter, a Shanghai-based journalist and son of a scrapyard owner, tours the world's waste "grubbing" hot spots to provide a savvy view of the processes, triumphs and failures of the scrap industry. He focuses mainly on recycling metals, but also covers plastics and the cont…
Adam Minter, periodista residente in Shanghai e hijo de un propietario de una chatarrería, recorre los principales centros de residuos del mundo y brinda una visión con sentido común de los procesos, triunfos y errores de la industria de la chatarra. Se concentra en el reciclaje…
How can garbage turn into gold' What does recycling have to do with globalization' Where does all that stuff we throw away go, anyway' 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 a…
"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 Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter-- vetera…