Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Kate O'Neill's latest work takes us on an eye-popping journey through rich case studies of wastes and their movement around the planet.”
Josh Lepawsky, Memorial University of Newfoundland
“A marvelously crafted and grippingly written book about one of the most pressing challenges facing our planet. The sooner you read it, the more you will learn about the ways in which we systematically fail to use so much of what we extract and how governments, businesses, and individuals can turn to this expanding ‘global resource frontier’ to reduce our impact.”
Ben Cashore, Yale University
"In this important book, Kate O’Neill expertly traces the complex international trade flows behind the prodigious volumes of waste generated by global consumer society. A valuable and illuminating contribution to current debates about if and how we make the shift to more sustainable lifestyles."
Maurie Cohen, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Table of ContentsFigures and Tables
List of Acronyms
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: The Global Political Economy of Waste
Chapter 2: Understanding Wastes
Chapter 3: Waste Work
Chapter 4: Discarded Electronics
Chapter 5: Food Waste
Chapter 6: Plastic Scrap
Conclusion: A World without Waste?
Notes
Selected Readings
References
