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Total garbage : how we can fix our waste and heal our world / by Humes, Edward,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."What happens to our trash? Why are our oceans filling with plastic? Do we really waste 40 percent of our food 65 percent of our energy? Waste is truly our biggest problem, and solving our inherent trashiness can fix our economy, our energy costs, our traffic jams, and help slow climate change--all while making us healthier, happier and more prosperous. This story-driven and in-depth exploration of the pervasive yet hard-to-see wastefulness that permeates our daily lives illuminates the ways in which we've been duped into accepting absolutely insane levels of waste as normal. Total Garbage also tells the story of individuals and communities who are finding the way back from waste, and showing us that our choices truly matter and make a difference. Our big environmental challenges--climate, energy, plastic pollution, deforestation, toxic emissions--are often framed as problems too big for any one person to solve. Too big even for hope. But when viewed as symptoms of a single greater problem--the epic levels of trash and waste we produce daily--the way forward is clear. Waste is the one problem individuals can positively impact--and not just on the planet, but also on our wallets, our health, and national and energy security. The challenge is seeing our epic wastefulness clearly. Total Garbage will shine a light on the absurdity of the systems that all of us use daily and take for granted--and it will help both individuals and communities make meaningful changes toward better lives and a cleaner, greener world"--Prologue: The credit card -- Our dirty love affair with trash. Our disposable age -- Trash genius -- Message in a bottle -- Power hungry. Ring of fire -- Taking the heat -- Squeezing the juice -- Chutes and ladders -- Eating up, driving off, buying out. Stick a fork in it -- The car of the future isn't what you think -- The wallet ballot -- Schooled -- What you can do right now about waste: the master list.
Subjects: Refuse and refuse disposal.; Waste minimization.;
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Trash talk : an eye-opening exploration of our planet's dirtiest problem / by Gottlieb, Iris,author.https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjqtBvqbHpbbm7YR7yVYKd;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232).Introduction: So, what is trash? -- Part 1: Our trashy history. Ancient systems -- So, how did we get here from Pompeii? -- The beginning of the garbage industry -- Part 2: Where does our trash go? Poverty vs. wealth -- Recycling -- Landfills and incinerators -- Part 3: Waste at home. Food -- Plastic -- Paper -- Textiles -- Part 4: The other 97 percent of waste. Construction -- Mining -- Radioactive waste -- E-waste -- Medical waste -- Human waste, sewer systems, and more -- The funeral industry -- Orbital debris -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- About the author -- Notes."In a world of mass consumption and busy schedules, taking the time to understand our own trash habits can be daunting. In Talking Trash, the ever-curious and talented Iris Gottlieb pulls back the curtain on the intricacies of the global trash production system and its contribution to climate change . From the history of the mafia's rule of the New York sanitation system to orbital debris (space trash) to the myth of recycling, Gottlieb will help readers see trash in a whole new way. Complete with beautiful illustrations and several landfills' worth of research, Talking Trash shines a much-needed light on a system that has been broken for far too long, providing readers with surprising, disgusting, and insightful information to better understand how we affect garbage and how it affects us"--
Subjects: Refuse and refuse disposal.; Recycling (Waste, etc.); Refuse collection.;
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Waste wars : the wild afterlife of your trash / by Clapp, Alexander,author.http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/authttp://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2025027977;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-373) and index."Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing. Disputes about what to do with the millions of tons of garbage generated every day have given rise to waste wars waged almost everywhere we look. Some are border skirmishes. Others involve hustling trash across thousands of miles and multiple oceans. But no matter the scale, one thing is true about almost all of them: Few people have any idea they're happening. Journalist Alexander Clapp spent two years roaming five continents -- reporting deep inside the world of Javanese recycling gangsters, cruise-ship dismantlers in the Aegean, Tanzanian plastic pickers, whistleblowing environmentalists in the jungles of Guatemala, and a community of Ghanaian boys who burn Western cellphones and televisions for cents an hour -- to tell readers what he has discovered: While some trash gets tossed onto roadsides or buried underground, much of it actually lives a secret hot-potato second life, getting shipped, sold, resold, or smuggled from one country to another, often with devastating consequences for the poorest nations of the world. Waste Wars is a jaw-dropping expoš of how and why, for the past forty years, our garbage has spawned a massive, globe-spanning, multibillion-dollar economy, one that off-loads our consumption footprints onto distant continents, pristine landscapes, and unsuspecting populations. If the handling of our trash reveals deeper truths about Western society, what does the business of garbage say about our world today? And what does it say about us?" --Introduction: Mayhem in Mesopotamia -- Part one: Toxic tropics. Banana republic ; The chemical century ; Cash for trash ; Debt and development ; Merchants of disease ; Guns and germs ; Trash ash odyssey ; Rising up ; American exceptionalism ; The waste trade strikes back -- Part two: E-waste on the Odaw. State and slum ; To the quays of Tema ; Treasure ; Logging on ; Technological tinkering ; The flexible mine ; Start-up cesspools ; A new Agbogbloshie? ; Going fishing ; Magical things -- Part three: Aegean abomination. Global junk heap ; Shipping out ; Into the heart of Anatolia ; Deadly business ; Scrap shepherds ; Scrap nation ; At Europe's edge ; Greeks bearing gifts ; Coming home -- Part four: Pacific plastic. A long journey ; Plastification ; The greatest miracle yet ; One-man multinational ; Plastic China ; Mad scramble ; A trash chief ; A trash scion ; Back to the Pacific -- Conclusion: Whither waste?Alexander Clapp is a journalist and writer based in Greece.
Subjects: Refuse and refuse disposal.; Refuse disposal industry.; Refuse and refuse disposal; Environmental responsibility; Environmental justice.; Recycling (Waste, etc.); Refuse Disposal;
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Throwaway nation : the ugly truth about American garbage / by Dondero, Jeff,1947-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgments and Disclamers -- Preface: Everyone Wants a Pet, but No One Wants to Pick Up the Poop -- Chapter 1: Talkin' Trash / Chapter 2: Wasting Our O2 / Chapter 3: Waterways Waste Watch -- Chapter 4: Losing Land / Chapter 5: Space Junk / Chapter 6: Fish to Farm to Table to Trash / Chapter 7: Fashion from Trendy to Trash: Big-Time Blemishes of the Beauty Business / Chapter 8: Sweet and Sour Charity / Chapter 9: Paper Waste Chase / Chapter 10: Plastics: A Blessing and a Curse / Chapter 11: Packaging: Thinking Inside and Outside the Box / Chapter 12: E-Waste: The Stuff We Couldn't Do Without is Now Stuff We Don't Know What to Do With /Chapter 13: Opening Pandora's Pharmacy / Chapter 14: The Impaired Industry of Producing Power / Chapter 15: The Industry of Waste / Chapter 16: Government's Senseless Super Spending / Chapter 17: The Forty-Hour Workweek Waste / Chpater 18: Pet Waste - The Real Poop / Chapter 19: Treasure from Trash / Index / About the Author.Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It’s befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet in transportation usage and waste, and we’re now polluting outer space. Throwaway Nation takes a look at the pileup of waste in the US, including the problem of plastic, the industry of overmedication, e-waste products, everyday garbage, fast fashion trash, space waste, and other forms of profligacy that serve to make our nation the biggest waster on the planet. Looking at the environmental impact of so much garbage, Dondero explores not just how we got here and where we’re headed, but ways in which we might be able to curb the tide.From what you do and don’t eat, what and how your products are packaged, the rampant production of clothes, the space and waste in which you work, live, what you breath, eat, drink, the tools you use to work and play, the energy overproduced and ill-used for a pleasant lifestyle, the waste you generate, and how humans are beginning to clutter the cosmos—all and more are profiled in the Throwaway Nation—and what we ought to do to prohibit and mitigate the flow of our garbage and to use it productively. --
Subjects: Refuse and refuse disposal; Salvage (Waste, etc.);
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Throwaway nation : The ugly truth about American garbage / by Dondero, Jeff,1947-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgments and Disclamers -- Preface: Everyone Wants a Pet, but No One Wants to Pick Up the Poop -- Chapter 1: Talkin' Trash / Chapter 2: Wasting Our O2 / Chapter 3: Waterways Waste Watch -- Chapter 4: Losing Land / Chapter 5: Space Junk / Chapter 6: Fish to Farm to Table to Trash / Chapter 7: Fashion from Trendy to Trash: Big-Time Blemishes of the Beauty Business / Chapter 8: Sweet and Sour Charity / Chapter 9: Paper Waste Chase / Chapter 10: Plastics: A Blessing and a Curse / Chapter 11: Packaging: Thinking Inside and Outside the Box / Chapter 12: E-Waste: The Stuff We Couldn't Do Without is Now Stuff We Don't Know What to Do With /Chapter 13: Opening Pandora's Pharmacy / Chapter 14: The Impaired Industry of Producing Power / Chapter 15: The Industry of Waste / Chapter 16: Government's Senseless Super Spending / Chapter 17: The Forty-Hour Workweek Waste / Chpater 18: Pet Waste - The Real Poop / Chapter 19: Treasure from Trash / Index / About the Author.Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It’s befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet in transportation usage and waste, and we’re now polluting outer space. Throwaway Nation takes a look at the pileup of waste in the US, including the problem of plastic, the industry of overmedication, e-waste products, everyday garbage, fast fashion trash, space waste, and other forms of profligacy that serve to make our nation the biggest waster on the planet. Looking at the environmental impact of so much garbage, Dondero explores not just how we got here and where we’re headed, but ways in which we might be able to curb the tide.From what you do and don’t eat, what and how your products are packaged, the rampant production of clothes, the space and waste in which you work, live, what you breath, eat, drink, the tools you use to work and play, the energy overproduced and ill-used for a pleasant lifestyle, the waste you generate, and how humans are beginning to clutter the cosmos—all and more are profiled in the Throwaway Nation—and what we ought to do to prohibit and mitigate the flow of our garbage and to use it productively. -- provided by publisher.Description based on print version record.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Refuse and refuse disposal; Salvage (Waste, etc.);
On-line resources: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kirtland-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5774630 -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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Rubbish! : the archaeology of garbage / by Rathje, William L.; Murphy, Cullen.;
Subjects: Garbage Project (University of Arizona); Refuse and refuse disposal; Refuse and refuse disposal;
© c1992., HarperCollins Publishers,
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Garbology : our dirty love affair with trash / by Humes, Edward.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In this narrative science book about trash, the author, a journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. Trash is America's largest export. Individually, we make more than four pounds a day, sixty-four tons across a lifetime. We make so much of it that trash dominates America's place in the global economy, now the most prized product made in the United States. In 2010, China's number one export to the U.S. was computer equipment. America's two biggest exports were paper waste and scrap metal. Somehow, a country that once built things for the rest of the world has transformed itself into China's trash compactor. In this book the author reveals what this world of trash looks like, how we got here, and what some families, communities, and other countries are doing to find a way back from a world of waste. Highlights include: Los Angeles's sixty-story garbage mountain, so big and bizarrely prominent that it has spawned its own climate, habitat, and tour business. The waste trackers of MIT, whose "smart trash" has exposed the secret life and dirty death of what we throw away. China's garbage queen, Zhang Yin, who started collecting scrap paper in the 1990s and turned it into a multibillion-dollar business exporting American trash to make Chinese products to sell back to Americans. Artisan Bea Johnson, whose family has found that generating less waste has translated into more money, less debt, and more leisure time. As Wal-Mart aims for zero waste strategies and household recycling has become second nature, interest in trash has clearly reached new heights. From the quirky to the astounding, this book weighs in with remarkable true tales from the front lines of the war on waste."Narrative science book about trash"--102 tons, (or: becoming China's trash compactor) -- The Biggest Thing We Make. Ain't no mountain high enough ; Piggeries and burn piles: an American trash genesis ; From trash TV to landfill rodeos ; The last and future kingdom ; Down to the sea in chips ; Nerds vs. murdles -- The Trash Detectives. The trash trackers ; Decadence now -- The Way Back. Pick of the litter ; Chico and the man ; Green cities and garbage death rays ; Put-downs, pickups and the power of no -- Garbage in, garbage out.
Subjects: Refuse and refuse disposal; Environmental engineering; Salvage (Waste, etc.);
© c2012., Avery,
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The rime of the modern mariner / by Hayes, Nick(Illustrator); Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,1772-1834.Rime of the ancient mariner.;
A mariner appears on a park bench and begins his tale. Cursed by an albatross he slew whilst hunting whales, the mariner and his crew find themselves stranded within the North Pacific Garbage Patch: a vast, hypoxic, slow-whirling maelstrom of plastic waste; a hidden repository for the world's litter. Along the way, he meets various characters of our current environmental tragedy: a lady made of oil, a deserted ghost-ship drilling barge, a 2-inch salp (the human race's oceanic ancestor), a blue whale and a hermit. Nostradamus, Cassandra, Medusa, Poseidon, Thor, Gaia, Al-Javari, Mephistopheles and a buzzard also make cameo appearances.
Subjects: Sailors; Marine pollution; Refuse and refuse disposal;
© 2012., Viking Press,
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The everything kids' environment book : learn how you can help save the environment--by getting involved at school, at home, or at play / by Amsel, Sheri.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-120) and index.Understanding how our planet works -- Habitats of the world -- How we effect the environment -- The air and water -- Losing our wild treasures -- Garbage and recycling -- Environmentalism and green living -- Ways you can help the environment -- Actions to preserve our environment.With this book, kids and parents will find out what they can do every day to help protect the planet.
Subjects: Pollution; Environmental protection; Pollution; Refuse and refuse disposal; Pollution.; Ecology.; Environmental protection.; Environmental protection.; Science;
© c2007., Adams Media,
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Medical marvels : the 100 greatest advances in medicine / by Straus, Eugene; Straus, Alex.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-413) and index.From abandonment to the idea of healing -- The doctor-patient relationship -- The Hippocratic corpus -- The discovery of microscopic life -- The medical encounter and the history of the present illness -- Galenic medicine -- On the Frabric of the Human Body by Andreas Vesalius -- The physical examination -- To see for oneself at the autopsy -- On the Motion of the Heart by William Harvey -- Diagnostic x-ray examinations -- Observations and Experiments on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion by William Beaumont -- "Nervism" and the integration of the organ systems -- "Chemical Messengers" and the discovery of hormones -- The germ theory of disease -- Smallpox vaccination -- Aspirin -- The initiation of insulin therapy -- Florence Nightingale and modern nursing -- The development of sewage systems -- Public works and health -- Paul Ehrlich's "magic bullets" -- Eradication of smallpox by the World Health Organization -- Gregor Mendel's discovery of genetics -- Friedrich Miescher discovers DNA in pus -- Oswald Theodore Avery uncovers the function of DNA -- The structure of DNA is elucidated by James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin -- The genetic code --Tropical medicine --Microscopes -- The fool of pest -- Contraception -- George Seldes leads the fight to deal with tobacco-related illness -- Penicillin -- the development of surgical anesthesia -- Blood transfusion -- Modern surgical techniques -- The control of polio -- Cardiac catheterization and related techniques -- Cholesterol and the metabolic basis of cardiovascular disease -- Lab rats tango in the Bronx - the development of radioimmunoassay -- the discovery of viruses -- Retroviruses and oncogenes -- Koch's postulates -- Victory at C and the concept of vitamins -- Carbolic acid wound dressing -- Dentistry -- The relaxing factor that led to Viagra -- Advanced imaging techniques -- Immunological tolerance and rejection -- Solid organ transplantation -- Kidney Transplantation -- Liver transplantation -- Heart transplantation -- Bone marrow transplantation -- ancient and early surgery -- The development of medical subspecialties -- The development of surgical subspecialties -- Minimally invasive surgery -- Birthing care -- Hospitals --Coronary care and other intensive care units -- Streptomycin and control of tuberculosis -- Digitalis -- The pneumococcus from hell and understanding antiobiotic resistance -- The development of antiviral drugs and cures for childhood leukemia -- Chemotherapy for malignant disease -- Therapeutic radiation -- Rita Levi-Montalcini discovers nerve growth factor -- Hemodialysis -- Restoration of vision with cataract and retinal surgery -- Understanding retroviruses and the treatment of AIDS -- The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) -- The human genome project -- Gene therapy -- The electrocardiogram -- Mitochondrial function and disease -- Freud and the realization of the unconscious mind -- Group and family therapy -- Twelve-step programs and the treatment of addictive behavior -- Methadone maintenance treatment -- Treatment of schizophrenia -- Treatment of depression --Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine by Claude Bernard, and the protection of experimental subjects -- Tissue culture -- Understanding alcohol and health -- Preprofessional healthcare and the development of Fee-for-Service -- Socialized medicine -- Single-payer systems -- The fight to open medicine to women and minorities -- Health maintenance organizations -- Preventive medicine -- Refuse disposal -- Recalled to life by physical and occupational therapy -- The molecular biology of learning and memory -- Neonatology and gerontology -- In vitro fertilization and blastocyst selection -- Stem cells and regenerative medicine -- Prospective, randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trials -- Patient advocacy.
Subjects: Medicine; Medical innovations; MeÌdecine; MeÌdecine;
© 2006., Prometheus Books,
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