LIBRARY DONATIONS
Environmental books and DVD’s are periodically donated to Ruby Sisson Library. Click here to view a list of recent book donations… (a great reading list for those interested in sustainability…)
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When you drop your Coke can or newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world to people and places that clean up what you don’t want and turn it into something you can’t wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter travels deeply into a vast, often hidden, multibillion-dollar industry that’s transforming our economy and environment.
With unmatched access to and insight on the junk trade, Minter traces the export of America’s recyclables and the massive profits that China and other rising nations earn from it. ….(more)
What emerges is an engaging, colorful, and sometimes troubling tale of consumption, innovation, and the ascent of a developing world that recognizes value where Americans don’t. Junkyard Planet reveals that we might need to learn a smarter way to take out the trash.