Why China Doesn’t Want Your Trash

Garbology: Our Dirt Love Affair With Trash, by Edward Humes

Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade By Adam Minter

Amazon box image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tombullock/2747860026

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