Tom Szaky

Outsmart Waste: The Modern Idea of Garbage and How to Think Our Way Out of It

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Ever-expanding landfills, ocean gyres filled with floating plastic mush, endangered wildlife. Our garbage has become a massive and exponentially growing problem in modern society. Eco-entrepreneur Tom Szaky explores why this crisis exists and explains how we can solve it by eliminating the very idea of garbage. To outsmart waste, he says, we first have to understand it, then change how we create it, and finally rethink what we do with it. By mimicking nature and focusing on the value inherent in our by-products, we can transform the waste we can't avoid creating from useless trash to a useful resource. Szaky demonstrates that there is value i… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-62656-024-6
EAN: 9781626560246
Produktnummer: 14640701
Verlag: Berrett Koehler Publ Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 156 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.6 cm x D1.5 cm 226 g
Gewicht: 226

Über den Autor

Tom Szaky is the founder and CEO of TerraCycle (www.terracycle.com), an innovative and award-winning global recycling company that makes typically nonrecyclable waste recyclable in over twenty-four countries around the world. Globally, over 60 million people participate in TerraCycle's programs.