Garbage Girl Book Club

Garbage 101

• “Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash”, Edward Humes
• “Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage”, William Rathje
• “Economics of Recycling: The global transformation of materials, values, and social relations”, Catherine Alexander
• “Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash”, Elizabeth Royte
• “Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage”, Heather Rogers

Zero Waste Movement & Solutions

• • “The Zero Waste Solution: Untrashing the Planet One Community at a Time”, Dr. Paul Connett
  • “Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying your Life by Reducing Your Waste”, Bea Johnson
  • “Outsmarting Waste: The Modern Idea of Garbage and How to Think Our Way Out of It”, Tom Szaky
  • “The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health- and a Vision for Change”, Annie Leanard
  • “The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability”, Paul Hawken

Plastics & Oceans

• “Plastic: A Toxic Love Story” Susan Freinkel
• “Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans”, Charles Moore
• “Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them”, Donovan Hohn
• “Floatsametrics and the Floating World: How One Mans Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science”, Curtis Ebbesmeyer

New York’s Trash

• “Mongo: Adventures in Trash”, Ted Botha
• “Fat of the Land: Garbage of New York– The Last 200 Years”, Benjamin F. Miller
• “Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City”, Robin Nagel

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