Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

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Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1608197913 | 304 pages | EPUB | 7 MB

When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterdayΓÇÖs newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you donΓÇÖt want and turn it into something you canΓÇÖt wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam MinterΓÇöveteran journalist and son of an American junkyard ownerΓÇötravels deeply into a vast, often hidden, multibillion-dollar industry thatΓÇÖs transforming our economy and environment.

Minter takes us from back-alley Chinese computer recycling operations to high-tech facilities capable of processing a jumbo jetΓÇÖs worth of recyclable trash every day. Along the way, we meet an unforgettable cast of characters who've figured out how to build fortunes from what we throw away: Leonard Fritz, a young boy "grubbing" in Detroit's city dumps in the 1930s; Johnson Zeng, a former plastics engineer roaming America in search of scrap; and Homer Lai, an unassuming barber turned scrap titan in Qingyuan, China. Junkyard Planet reveals how ΓÇ£going greenΓÇ¥ usually means making moneyΓÇöand why thatΓÇÖs often the most sustainable choice, even when the recycling methods arenΓÇÖt pretty.

With unmatched access to and insight on the junk trade, and the explanatory gifts and an eye for detail worthy of a John McPhee or William Langewiesche, Minter traces the export of AmericaΓÇÖs recyclables and the massive profits that China and other rising nations earn from it. What emerges is an engaging, colorful, and sometimes troubling tale of consumption, innovation, and the ascent of a developing world that recognizes value where Americans donΓÇÖt. Junkyard Planet reveals that we might need to learn a smarter way to take out the trash.

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