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What is your most recently read science book? What did you think of it? Part 3
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‘Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future� by Oliver Franklin-Wallis is eye-opening and depressing. Franklin-Wallis has pulled together seemingly everything that has been discovered, researched and analyzed about many types of waste from multiple sources: scientific studies, journalists� articles, engineer/scientist interviews, and relevant historical records. He also traveled all over the world to make personal visits to see for himself the city dumps, pla
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A fascinating and eye-opening look at what happens to various items after we discard them -- recycled items (particularly plastics), clothing, electronics, food, excrement, and others. It was both fascinating and dismaying to learn that an estimated 1/4 of clothing produced is never worn, and 1/3 of food produced is never eaten. It was also disappointing but not entirely surprising to learn that much of what we put in our recycling bins isn't actually recycled, and how global factors (i.e., Chin
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this just broke my heart.
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Super informative and interesting. Important information for everyone!
Super informative and interesting. Important information for everyone!
Well Franklin-Wallace tried to end on a hopeful note but didn’t succeed.
I have toured the Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington.
And seen the massive and very expensive effort to deal with our nuclear waste including pumping ground water that has become contaminated and treating it to try to prevent it getting to the Columbia River.
I have been leary of the MRF sorters since they were sold to our waste management companies decades ago.
I have seen plastic “recycling� from the ...more
I have toured the Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington.
And seen the massive and very expensive effort to deal with our nuclear waste including pumping ground water that has become contaminated and treating it to try to prevent it getting to the Columbia River.
I have been leary of the MRF sorters since they were sold to our waste management companies decades ago.
I have seen plastic “recycling� from the ...more
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