Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth about American Garbage

The US is the largest waster on the planet due to its pileup of waste, including plastic, overmedication, e-waste products, everyday garbage, fast fashion trash, space waste, and other forms of profligacy. Throwaway Nation explores how we got here and where we're headed, and ways to curb the tide.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 08 August 2023
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. Its befouling our air,land,waters,food,and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics,the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet in transportation usage and waste,and were now polluting outer space. Throwaway Nation takes a look at the pileup of waste in the US,including the problem of plastic,the industry of overmedication,e-waste products,everyday garbage,fast fashion trash,space waste,and other forms of profligacy that serve to make our nation the biggest waster on the planet. Looking at the environmental impact of so much garbage,Dondero explores not just how we got here and where were headed,but ways in which we might be able to curb the tide.

From what you do and dont eat,what and how your products are packaged,the rampant production of clothes,the space and waste in which you work,live,what you breath,eat,drink,the tools you use to work and play,the energy overproduced and ill-used for a pleasant lifestyle,the waste you generate,and how humans are beginning to clutter the cosmos—all and more are profiled in the Throwaway Nation—and what we ought to do to prohibit and mitigate the flow of our garbage and to use it productively.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538185377