Elizabeth Royte: 2 books
Garbage Land
On the Secret Trail of Trash
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens...
Bottlemania
Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Second only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country. The brands have become so ubiquitous that we're hardly conscious that Poland Spring and Evian were once real springs, bubbling in remote corners of Maine and France. Only now, with the water industry...