Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780306827112)

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER, THE GUARDIAN, and KIRKUS REVIEWS

An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy--and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?

In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry--the secretive multi-billion dollar world that underpins the modern economy, quietly profiting from what we leave behind. In India, he meets the waste-pickers on the front line of the plastic crisis. In the UK, he journeys down sewers to confront our oldest--and newest--waste crisis, and comes face-to-face with nuclear waste. In Ghana, he follows the after-life of our technology and explores the global export network that results in goodwill donations clogging African landfills. From an incinerator to an Oklahoma ghost-town, Franklin-Wallis travels in search of the people and companies that really handle waste--and on the way, meets the innovators and campaigners pushing for a cleaner and less wasteful future.

With this mesmerizing, thought-provoking, and occasionally terrifying investigation, Oliver Franklin-Wallis tells a new story of humanity based on what we leave behind, and along the way, he shares a blueprint for building a healthier, more sustainable world--before we're all buried in trash.

Author: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
ISBN-10: 0306827115
ISBN-13: 9780306827112
Publisher: Hachette Books
Language: English
Published: 07/18/2023
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 04/17/2023
Booklist 06/01/2023 pg. 13