Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
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A brilliant exploration into the soiled heart of the American trash can.
Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels ... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away?
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