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Ebook About How can garbage turn into gold? What does recycling have to do with globalization? Where does all that stuff we throw away go, anyway? When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter-veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner-travels deeply into a vast, often hidden, 500-billion-dollar industry that's transforming our economy and environment.Minter takes us from back-alley Chinese computer recycling operations to recycling factories capable of processing a jumbo jet's worth of trash every day. Along the way, we meet an international cast of characters who have figured out how to squeeze Silicon Valley-scale fortunes from what we all throw away. Junkyard Planet reveals how “going green” usually means making money-and why that's often the most sustainable choice, even when the recycling methods aren't pretty.With unmatched access to and insight on the waste industry, and the explanatory gifts and an eye for detail worthy of a John McPhee or William Langewiesche, Minter traces the export of America's garbage and the massive profits that China and other rising nations earn from it. What emerges is an engaging, colorful, and sometimes troubling tale of how the way we consume and discard stuff brings home the ascent of a developing world that recognizes value where Americans don't. Junkyard Planet reveals that Americans might need to learn a smarter way to take out the trash.Book Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade Review :
I don't think I saw my first junkyard until well into my 20's. We just didn't have them where I grew up and the industry had a bad reputation as being dodgy. Possibly this was the stereotype conveyed through numerous TV series and movies.Junkyard Planet takes the reader through a deep and meticulously researched story about the modern day scrap merchants. Where the metal comes from, how it gets sorted, where it's sold and what happens to it next. We discover what happens to the discarded Christmas tree lights, abandoned cars, TVs, motors, bed frames, wiring, phones and more.Because the author was at one time the only person in the world reporting on scrap metal in Asia and actually came from a family who owned a junkyard, there are very few people qualified to write such an account. The book mainly covers the US and China and various characters are introduced along the way.Rather than a quick read, the level of detail is such that it took a while longer to get through. Because I read this as an ebook, the authors' photos were at the end and too difficult to make out.I'd recently read Adam Minter's book about the secondhand market and saw Junkyard Planet was his first. I found both books equally engaging, and interesting. The scrap yards that I remember from my youth were what the author refers to as auto junkyards. I always believed they were the one and only place where scrap went, whether it was a car being sold in pieces or put into a crusher and turned into a pile of junk metal. I never really knew that there were places that specialized in other types of scrap, but I soon learned about the long history of scrap yards as I read this book.The author takes the reader on a tour of the various types of scrap that exist. From electrical wire, to electric motors, to plastics, to cars and to steel and aluminum and many more, each type of scrap has a market and a place in the recycling pecking order. In addition, there are places in China that specialize in each of these types of scrap.Our garbage is China's, and to a lesser extent, India's raw materials from which new products spring. Each has a growing economy and a developing middle class that wants the same goods that are present in the United States. In addition, we are still addicted to buying inexpensive merchandise from China and the "raw" materials have to come from somewhere. The easiest way to obtain those goods is to come to the United States and buy them from recyclers and scrap dealers.Although that would seem to be an expensive proposition; buying a container of scrap, shipping it to China and then separating it into useful parts, nothing could be further from the truth. The containers travel back to China virtually free. The shipping companies have to get the ships and containers back to China, and they would get nothing for an empty one way trip, so they offer deep discount shipping to get something to help cover the cost of fuel. And, getting the product ready is also inexpensive as labor in developing countries is also cheap.The author made several points worth pondering. One, if the developing world didn't buy our scrap, it would end up in landfills, filling them more quickly and burying materials that have significant value. In addition, by buying our scrap, these countries are not opening mines to find the raw materials, which saves the environment and cuts greenhouse gas emissions. Imagine how many emissions would come from a copper mine, where 100 tons of material have to be moved to extract one ton of copper ore. Although the methods of stripping wire, or melting plastic in China are hardly ideal, they beat the various alternatives available.The final take away from this book is that it is best to reduce your purchasing habits, then to reuse items as much as possible, and only then to recycle. It certainly opened my eyes. In addition, I found the book to be wonderful read. The author wrote well, and despite some redundancy, the book is full of important information. I cannot recommend it highly enough! Read Online Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade Download Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade PDF Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade Mobi Free Reading Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade Download Free Pdf Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade PDF Online Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade Mobi Online Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade Reading Online Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade Read Online Adam Minter Download Adam Minter Adam Minter PDF Adam Minter Mobi Free Reading Adam Minter Download Free Pdf Adam Minter PDF Online Adam Minter Mobi Online Adam Minter Reading Online Adam MinterDownload PDF Glass Syndrome By Eiko Ariki
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