Junkyard Planet - Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade - Grand Format

When you drop your diet coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go ? Probably halfway around the world, through a vast, hazardous, and often hidden global network of people whose business is to turn what you don't want into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet. Adam Minter illuminates the $500 billion industry that transforms garbage into gold—and is also transforming our economy and our environment.
With unmatched access to and knowledge of the junk trade, Minter—veteran journalist and son of a scrap dealer—gives us a clear and colorful picture of how America's recyclables translate to massive profits for China and other rising nations. This is a perspective on globalization you haven't seen, one that will forever change the meaning of "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle."