Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage by Heather Rogers
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. Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you’re soon faced with a bewildering amount of garbage. The United States is the planet’s number-one producer of trash. Each American throws out 4.5 pounds daily. But garbage is also a global problem; the Pacific Ocean is today six times more abundant with plastic waste than zooplankton. How did we end up with this much rubbish, and where does it all go? Journalist and filmmaker Heather Rogers answers these questions by taking readers on a grisly, oddly fascinating tour through the underworld of garbage.
Chapter: Conservation :: 26 February 2010
