Trash Talk What You Throw Away

Download or read book Trash Talk written by Michelle Mulder and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have always generated garbage, whether it’s a chewed-on bone or a broken cell phone. Our landfills are overflowing, but with some creative thinking, stuff we once threw away can become a collection of valuable resources just waiting to be harvested. Trash Talk digs deep into the history of garbage, from Minoan trash pits to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and uncovers some of the many innovative ways people all over the world are dealing with waste.