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The US leads the world in many ways, including the amount of waste we produce. Although we constitute less than 5 percent of the world’s population, we use up to 30 percent of the world’s resources, and per capita we generate the most trash. Throwaway Nation illuminates the problem and suggests ways we can mitigate this environmental disaster.
List of contents
Preface
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Acknowledgement and Disclaimer
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Chapter 1
, Trash Talkin'
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Chapter 2
, Wasting Our 02
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Chapter 3
, Waterways Waste Watch
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Chapter 4
, Losing Land
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Chapter 5
, Space Junk
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Chapter 6
, From Farm to Fish to Table to Trash
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Chapter 7
, Trendy to Trash
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Chapter 8
, Sweet and Sour Charity
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Chapter 9
, Paper Waste Chase
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Chapter 10
, Plastics A Blessing and A Curse
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Chapter 11
, Packaging Thinking Inside and Outside the Box
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Chapter 12
, E-Waste. What We Couldn't Do without, We Don't Know What Do With
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Chapter 13
, Opening Pandora's Pharmacy
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Chapter 14
, The Impaired Industry of Producing Power
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Chapter 15
, Industry of Waste
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Chapter 16
, Government Senseless Super Spending
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Chapter 17
, The 40 Hour Work Week Waste
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Chapter 18
, Pet Waste-It's No Poop
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Chapter 19
, Goof Fortune in Garbage
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About the author
Jeff Dondero has a diverse background and experience in writing, ranging from web content, B2B, books, hard news, and interviews to feature writing. He began his career as stringer and freelancer for the San Francisco Examiner, worked as a reporter and editor for several suburban newspapers, was the entertainment editor for The Marin Independent Journal, a writer and editor of various magazines, wrote for KTVU-TV in the San Francisco Bay Area, toiled in a trade magazine mill, and created a website dedicated to sustainable construction industries (http://www.greenbuildingdigest.net/). He was invited as a writer-in-residence at the art colony in Rancho Vista, Arizona in 2014, where he wrote a slim volume of poetry. He continues to expand his national readership with books, social media, various writers’ blogs and websites, radio and television appearances. Jeff Dondero is also the author of The Energy Wise Home: Practical Ideas for Saving Energy, Money, and the Planet (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) and The Energy Wise Workplace: Practical and Cost-Effective Ideas for a Sustainable and Green Workplace (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).
Summary
The US leads the world in many ways, including the amount of waste we produce. Although we constitute less than 5 percent of the world’s population, we use up to 30 percent of the world’s resources, and per capita we generate the most trash. Throwaway Nation illuminates the problem and suggests ways we can mitigate this environmental disaster.
