Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Garbology : (Record no. 85465)

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2012001701
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781583334348 (hardback)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 1583334343 (hardback)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)764346938
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 628.440973 Hum
Item number 12
090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
-- 85465
-- 85464
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number 628.440973 Hum
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Humes, Edward. frey50
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Garbology :
Remainder of title our dirty love affair with trash /
Statement of responsibility, etc Edward Humes.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Avery,
Date of publication, distribution, etc c2012.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 277 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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. nurdles -- 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "Narrative science book about trash"--
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Refuse and refuse disposal
Geographic subdivision United States.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environmental engineering
Geographic subdivision United States.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Salvage (Waste, etc.)
Geographic subdivision China.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Waste Management.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element TRAVEL / General.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
-- AJML
Koha item type 600 - 699
-- 628.440973 Hum
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-- 12
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