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Gone Tomorrow
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Pages: 306
Authors: Heather Rogers
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-08-21 - Publisher: The New Press

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A sobering exploration of our high-octane trash output that was named an Editor's Choice by the New York Times and a nonfiction choice by The Guardian.
Garbage Land
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Authors: Elizabeth Royte
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Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratch
Garbage Wars
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Pages: 255
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Giants of Garbage
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Pages: 316
Authors: Harold Crooks
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Harold Crooks chronicles the history of waste management, showing how an ideology of privatization set the stage for the local refuse collection business to bec