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- Title: SUMMARY - Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter
- Author : Shortcut Edition
- Release Date : January 11, 2020
- Genre: Study Aids,Books,Reference,Business & Personal Finance,Marketing & Sales,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes.
*By reading this summary, you will learn more about the global waste recycling economy, particularly in China and the United States.
*You will also learn that : Houston has the lowest waste recycling rate in the United States; San Francisco has the highest waste recycling rate in the United States; China produces more waste than the United States; Per capita waste generation is four to five times higher in the United States than in China; Slums around the world are the largest recycling plants; The key U.S. concept in waste generation is "municipal solid waste".
*Adam Minter's book scans a little-known sector of the global economy: that of waste recycling, which represents an annual turnover of $500 billion. He explains in detail how the scraps of our affluent society become real nuggets in the hands of all those involved in a long chain of stakeholders, from the beggar in the American megacities to the immigrant from rural China stranded in Shanghai or Beijing.
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