Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash - Elizabeth Royte

Category: Science
Language: English
Keywords: Garbage

Written by Elizabeth Royte
Format: MP3

A brilliant exploration into the soiled heart of the American trash can.

Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels … But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away?