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Author: Franklin-Wallis, Oliver

Waste management

Published on 11 April 2024 by Simon & Schuster Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 400 pages, none
200 x 130 x 24 | 292g

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR INTHEGUARDIANAND THENEW YORKER CaptivatingLiterary ReviewPowerfulNew Scientist ImpressiveSpectatorImportantFinancial Times Waste is everywhere. Its clogging our rivers and littering our streets. The Pacific Ocean contains a great garbage patch three times the size of France. Our junk is even orbiting the earth. No wonder there are microplastics in our bloodstreams.

Waste, a problem weve ignored for too long, is now a global crisis and its getting worse.

From the landfills of New Delhi, to the second-hand clothing markets of Ghana and the overflowing sewers of Britain, join Oliver Franklin-Wallis as he reveals the dirty truth about the global waste industry.