Trash Talk

"""A must-read for anyone who cares about understanding how the Earth got 'trashed.'"" --Kirkus “Gottlieb’s candor and willing­ness to call out these painful truths make Trash Talk a book readers will remember and share.” --BookPage ""As this sprightly book makes clear, it's hard to throw something 'away' because a finite planet doesn't really have an away--not even in orbit, where space junk is piling up. So we better start thinking through some new approaches!"" --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature ""Trash Talk is a brilliant, revelatory delight to read. It is an anthropological whodunit that thoroughly describes how much we extract from the living world and transform it into the dead world. Who thought a book on trash could be a page-turner. Think again!"" --Paul Hawken, author of Drawdown and Regeneration   “Like all of Iris Gottlieb's books, Trash Talk is a marvel of fascinating information, relatable insights, and laugh-out-loud hilarious illustrations and commentary. You'll be engrossed, entertained, and horrified by all the waste-related facts packed into the book, along with genuinely useful details about the world of trash that most of us know so little about. Everyone should read this book!” --Margaret (Mei) and Irene Li, authors of Perfectly Good Food: A Totally Achievable Zero Waste Approach to Home Cooking"