Trashing the planet : examining our global garbage glut
Title:
Trashing the planet : examining our global garbage glut
Author:
Kallen, Stuart A., 1955- author.
ISBN:
9781512413144
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
104 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
The United States of Trash -- The toxic roots of trash -- Trashing food -- Worldwide waste -- Oceans of plastic -- Space junk.
Abstract:
Introduces the problems of global waste disposal, describing the hazards of toxins associated with landfills, plastics floating in the oceans, and debris orbiting the planet, with some of the solutions proposed by scientists.
