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Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter
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If the goal is conservation, then boosting recycling rates is far less important than reducing the overall volume of waste generated—recyclable or otherwise.
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“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, and Thriller


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