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    <body><![CDATA[The set-up is straightforward. Royte follows her trash wherever it leads her: to the sanitation truck, to the waste transfer station in Bayridge, to private landfills in Bethlehem, PA, to waste-to-energy facilities in Newark, NJ, to paper/metal/plastic recycling facilities in Staten Island, Jersey C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4085161">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been told to read this book for months and months. Finally got around to it, and I am so glad I did. Garbage Land is a completely accessible, extremely well written contemporary history of the garbage industry, with chapters on landfills, composting, glass recycling, plastics (called 'the dev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/312139">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fascinating book about the path our trash and recycling take once they leave the bins outside our houses.  I found the author a bit critical, aka mean, in her writing of the people she encountered that were 'in the business' of trash.  She wasn't critical of what they did, rather, how it w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7102852">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A scientist living in New York, Royte wonders where our garbage goes. She begins by sorting and measuring her own waste, then follows the streams of trash with the garbage trucks out to our landfills, recycling plants, and overseas where some of our vast amounts of consumer crap wind up. The depress...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20179375">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Be kind to your san man (or woman)! ... is just one of the useful observations in this likeable, engaging discussion of a topic of monstrous proportions. I particulary value Royte's presentation of the liabilities inherent in every solution. Bizarrily, however, by the end of the book, landfills don'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12818943">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been to my share of landfills and incinerators as a local government reporter, so I guess I have more of a morbid interest than the average person about the fate of our trash. You throw away a little at a time, it gets whisked away from your curb in the wee hours of the morning, and you never r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11677817">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book that describes where New York City trash goes.  She points out the good and bad of recycling, composting, waste disposal/treatment, landfills.  Her book challenges overconsumption and our disposable/single use habits.  The author traveled around the country to learn about what other c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54787020">more...</a>]]></body>
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