SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
A 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN AND THE NEW YORKER
'Captivating' Literary Review
'Powerful' New Scientist
'Impressive' Spectator
'Important' Financial Times
Waste is everywhere. It's clogging our rivers and littering our streets. The Pacific Ocean contains a great garbage patch three times the size of France. Our junk is even orbiting the earth. No wonder there are microplastics in our bloodstreams.
Waste, a problem we've ignored for too long, is now a global crisis - and it's getting worse.
From the landfills of New Delhi, to the second-hand clothing markets of Ghana and the overflowing sewers of Britain, join Oliver Franklin-Wallis as he reveals the dirty truth about the global waste industry.
In this eye-opening and ultimately hopeful book, he meets some of the heroic people trying to make a difference and explains precisely how we can create a better, less wasteful world.
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
A 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN AND THE NEW YORKER
'Captivating' Literary Review
'Powerful' New Scientist
'Impressive' Spectator
'Important' Financial Times
Waste is everywhere. It's clogging our rivers and littering our streets. The Pacific Ocean contains a great garbage patch three times the size of France. Our junk is even orbiting the earth. No wonder there are microplastics in our bloodstreams.
Waste, a problem we've ignored for too long, is now a global crisis - and it's getting worse.
From the landfills of New Delhi, to the second-hand clothing markets of Ghana and the overflowing sewers of Britain, join Oliver Franklin-Wallis as he reveals the dirty truth about the global waste industry.
In this eye-opening and ultimately hopeful book, he meets some of the heroic people trying to make a difference and explains precisely how we can create a better, less wasteful world.
'The book comes alive in its descriptions of people and places ... Franklin-Wallis writes stylishly about ugly things ... interesting and sobering ... His book should prompt serious discussion in boardrooms and parliaments' The Economist
'Waste is a serious problem and also a curiously fascinating one. In this brilliant book, Franklin-Wallis goes into it up to his neck - so we don't have to! The result is a gripping read that will anger as much as it fascinates. There's lots we can all do to help, but he's right to conclude that it's government and business who really have to step up, and clean up' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall