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SUMMARY:Nonfiction Book Group: Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of
 Your Trash by Alexander Clapp. Copies are available at the Circulation
 Desk and in our eLibrary.\n\nWe will meet in-person in the Reading Room.
 Please register if you would like to receive a reminder.\n\n"The total mass
 of the world's manmade materials has recently come to equal the entire
 biomass of the earth. This means we are living in a world where man's
 ability to create garbage\, or eventual garbage\, has surpassed the earth's
 ability to create life. Dumps and landfills around the world are
 overflowing\, and disputes about what to do with the tons of garbage
 generated every day have given rise to waste wars waged in just about every
 country on earth. Some are border skirmishes\, fought to move trash out of
 one place and dump it into another. Others are waged across thousands of
 miles. But no matter the scale\, one thing is true about almost all of
 them: few people have any idea they're happening. For every story about how
 a commodity gets hustled through world supply chains for consumption\,
 there exists another untold story about how it gets discarded for renewal -
 or for eternity. Some trash gets tossed onto roadsides. Some gets burned
 for fuel. Some gets buried underground. But most of it lives a hot potato
 second life\, getting bartered\, sold\, re-sold\, smuggled\, salvaged\,
 re-purposed from one country or mafia or corporation to another\, with
 devastating consequences for millions of people. Waste Wars tells the
 stories of five trash conflicts being waged in different corners of the
 world right now. They are representative but rich strands in the story of
 our planet's runaway garbage pandemic. In each theater\, a different
 commodity is being smuggled or imported or bartered. Sometimes there is a
 winner\; sometimes there is a loser. And in each theater a different
 political dilemma - from global inequality to the pitfalls of green
 politics - is presenting itself through the seemingly pedestrian medium of
 trash. A globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting\, Waste
 Wars exposes the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade in which almost
 everyone in the world unknowingly engages and asks: If the handling of its
 trash reveals deeper truths about a particular society\, what does the
 global business of trash say about our world today?"-- Provided by
 publisher.\n\n\n\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Required:
 please visit the library calendar to
 register.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Books, Reading, Writing
LOCATION:Reading Room\, Weston Public Library\, 87 School Street\, Weston\,
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