{"product_id":"throwaway-nation-the-ugly-truth-about-american-garbage-9781538185377","title":"Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth about American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmericans 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStarred Review: Humans are the only known species to create non-biodegradable waste, according to science writer Dondero. While our microscopic predecessors left us with an oxygen-rich atmosphere and enriched soils, we pollute. While populations of other animal species reach a balance in nature, we proliferate exponentially. As a species, we produce many tons of waste every second, fouling our air, water, and land and threatening our future. In Throwaway Nation, Dondero enumerates our many wasteful ways, explains their consequences, and offers remedies. He asks every reader to help, suggesting actions that we can take as individuals and identifying difficult societal shifts needed to mitigate climate change, pollution, and depletion of natural resources. As the author’s interests are wide-ranging—including debris in space, hours wasted in offices, and needless government spending—there should be a topic of concern for every reader. * Booklist, Starred Review *\u003cbr\u003eDondero injects dry humor and some interesting trivia into the book, and each chapter has suggested actions for trying to reverse the trend toward disposability . . . There’s so much information collected in this one volume, it would be terrible to let it all go to waste. Learning about the scope of the problem can stoke the energy needed to tackle it head on. * The Progressive Populist *\u003cbr\u003eThrowaway Nation is an extensively researched and entertainingly written examination of the detritus of our industrialized and consumer culture: from landfills to toxic waste and from fouled air to the North Pacific gyre. In lively and informed prose, Jeff Dondero takes us on a cradle-to-grave journey that materials take as they pass from the natural world, into our everyday lives, possibly through the recycling process, to the trash bin, and to a final resting place. Packed with facts, tidbits, and insight, Throwaway Nation also provides solutions, small and large. -- Kevin Wehr, Professor of Sociology, California State University Sacramento\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgement and Disclaimer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Trash Talkin’ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Wasting Our 02 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Waterways Waste Watch \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Losing Land \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Space Junk \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From Farm to Fish to Table to Trash \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Trendy to Trash \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sweet and Sour Charity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Paper Waste Chase\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Plastics A Blessing and A Curse \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Packaging Thinking Inside and Outside the Box \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e E-Waste. What We Couldn’t Do without, We Don’t Know What Do With \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Opening Pandora’s Pharmacy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Impaired Industry of Producing Power\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Industry of Waste \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Government Senseless Super Spending\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The 40 Hour Work Week Waste \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Pet Waste—It’s No Poop \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Goof Fortune in Garbage \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041264468311,"sku":"9781538185377","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538185377.jpg?v=1750949574","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/throwaway-nation-the-ugly-truth-about-american-garbage-9781538185377","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}