||13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| The Economics of The Global Scrap Trade|By Frederick S. Goethel|The scrap yards that I remember from my youth were what the author refers to as auto junkyards. I always believed they were the one and only place where scrap went, whether it was a car being sold in pieces or put into a crusher and turned into a pile of junk metal. I never really knew that there were places tha|From Publishers Weekly|Growing up as the son of a scrap dealer in Minneapolis, Minter learned firsthand that one man's trash is truly another man's treasure. In his first book, the Shanghai-based journalist charts the globalization of the recycling trade, focus
When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter--veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner--travels deep into a vast, often hidden, five-hundred-billion-dollar industry that's transforming our economy and environment.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade | Adam Minter.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
