Description Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste.
He was invited as a writer-in-residence at t. net/). greenbuildingdigest.
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.
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.
From what you do and don\'t eat, what and how your products are packaged, the rampant production of clothes, the space and waste in which you work, live, what you breath, eat, drink, the tools you use to work and play, the energy overproduced and ill-used for a pleasant lifestyle, the waste you generate, and how humans are beginning to clutter the cosmos--all and more are profiled in the Throwaway Nation--and what we ought to do to prohibit and mitigate the flow of our Garbage and to use it productively.
Looking at the environmental impact of so much garbage, Dondero explores not just how we got here and where we\'re headed, but ways in which we might be able to curb the tide.
Throwaway Nation takes a look at the pileup of waste in the US, including the problem of plastic, the industry of overmedication, e-waste products, everyday garbage, fast fashion trash, space waste, and other forms of profligacy that serve to make our nation the biggest waster on the planet.
We lead the planet in transportation usage and waste, and we\'re now polluting outer space.
America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world.
The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world.
It\'s befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies.
Description Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste
