Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash

Yes, a bit stodgy in patches, but a compreshensive journey from the 50s to present day. A good read for the layman to find out how we got to here - thanks, Mr Eisenhower! It is powerful, and (mostly) readable it will spike the reader to find out more, do more, about the terrible scourge of modern life.... Plastic, in all it's forms. It can even prompt an MSc dissertation topic - it did for me!

Not a great piece of writing, but this book draws our attention to the growing challenge of waste forcefully and with some well chosen examples that stay in the mind. You won't look at your own rubbish the same way again.

Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash Written from a U.S. perspective and in a somewhat ponderous style, this book is of most interest to non-U.S. readers when it details some of the frightening statistics of the global garbage scene -- especially of the threat posed by the careless disposal of the plastics we use in everyday life. An interesting insight, also, into the way in which powerful interest groups can succeed in negating proposals to combat the threat posed by irresponsibledisposal of waste materials.