An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global Waste crisis, exposing the hidden World that enables our modern economy -- and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away? In Wasteland , journalist Oliver Franklin-wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the Waste industry--the secretive multi-billion dollar World that underpins the modern economy, quietly profiting from what we leave behind.
With this mesmerizing, thought-provoking, and occasionally terrifying investigation, Oliver Franklin-wallis tells a new story of humanity based on what we leave behind, and along the way, he shares a blueprint for building a healthier, more sustainable world--before we\'re all buried in trash..
From an incinerator to an Oklahoma ghost-town, Franklin-wallis travels in Search of the people and companies that really handle waste--and on the way, meets the innovators and campaigners pushing for a Cleaner and less wasteful future.
In Ghana, he follows the after-life of our technology and explores the global export network that results in goodwill donations clogging African landfills.
In the UK, he journeys down sewers to confront our oldest--and newest--Waste crisis, and comes face-to-face with nuclear waste.
In India, he meets the waste-pickers on the front line of the plastic crisis.
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global Waste crisis, exposing the hidden World that enables our modern economy -- and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away? In Wasteland , journalist Oliver Franklin-wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the Waste industry--the secretive multi-billion dollar World that underpins the modern economy, quietly profiting from what we leave behind
