Rubbish! : dirt on our hands and crisis ahead / Richard Girling

We have two plans for dealing with the waste we produce:

A) chuck it in a hole, or
B) dump it on someone else's doorstep.

This story takes us from the first human bowel movement to the littering of outer space to spam e-mails.

Waste is a badge of affluence, but our innovative systems of dealing with waste are now crumbling into waste themselves. We are past the point where Reduce, Reuse and Recycle is enough. We must find a way to deal with this fast-ballooning catastrophe.

Rubbish! can be found on the shelves at TD 796.7 .G57 2005