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Garbage syllabus
All sorts of books that centre on waste, garbage, recycling, refusing, reducing, reusing, and upcycling
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Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
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Adam Minter (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 1,772 ratings
score: 589,
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Save the Ocean (Save the Earth, #1)
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Bethany Stahl (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 219 ratings
score: 400,
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4 people voted
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Handbook for Mortals (Handbook for Mortals, #1)
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Lani Sarem (Goodreads Author)
1.30 avg rating — 979 ratings
score: 399,
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4 people voted
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Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
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3.82 avg rating — 454 ratings
score: 298,
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3 people voted
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Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
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3.87 avg rating — 476 ratings
score: 293,
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3 people voted
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The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change
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4.08 avg rating — 4,363 ratings
score: 277,
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3 people voted
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Handbook for Mortals (Handbook for Mortals #1)
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Lani Sarem (Goodreads Author)
1.30 avg rating — 979 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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Save the Scraps (Save the Earth, #5)
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Bethany Stahl (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage
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3.98 avg rating — 485 ratings
score: 196,
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2 people voted
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Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
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3.97 avg rating — 1,604 ratings
score: 187,
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2 people voted
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Outsmart Waste: The Modern Idea of Garbage and How to Think Our Way Out of It
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3.74 avg rating — 147 ratings
score: 186,
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Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
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3.76 avg rating — 2,895 ratings
score: 183,
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2 people voted
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Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
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3.76 avg rating — 1,781 ratings
score: 181,
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2 people voted
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Kala Ghoda Poems
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4.08 avg rating — 75 ratings
score: 176,
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2 people voted
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
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3.93 avg rating — 14,819 ratings
score: 174,
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2 people voted
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Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
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Edward Humes (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 2,567 ratings
score: 174,
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I'm Not a Plastic Bag
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3.36 avg rating — 265 ratings
score: 174,
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Why Shrinkwrap a Cucumber?: The Complete Guide to Environmental Packaging
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3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 174,
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The Secret Life of Stuff: A Manual for a New Material World
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3.30 avg rating — 79 ratings
score: 172,
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Of Poverty and Plastic (OIP): Scavenging and Scrap Trading Entrepreneurs in India's Urban Informal Economy
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Road
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score: 100,
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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Austin Kleon (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 327,731 ratings
score: 100,
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Andai Itu Takdirnya
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4.40 avg rating — 4,151 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Zero-Waste Lifestyle: Live Well by Throwing Away Less
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3.61 avg rating — 913 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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I, Tonya: A Screenplay
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3.96 avg rating — 51 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
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Miranda Paul (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 2,049 ratings
score: 100,
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American Bulk: Essays on Excess
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Emily Mester (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance
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4.01 avg rating — 1,216 ratings
score: 99,
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Chocolate Wishes
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3.83 avg rating — 4,020 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 715 ratings
score: 99,
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Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set up and Maintain a Worm Composting System, Second Edition
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4.19 avg rating — 1,659 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
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Edward Humes (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 352 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
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Janisse Ray (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 3,542 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Where Does the Garbage Go?
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3.89 avg rating — 189 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Cradle to Cradle
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4.09 avg rating — 12,433 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Scraps, Wilt & Weeds: Turning Wasted Food into Plenty
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3.66 avg rating — 99 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Remake It!: Recycling Projects from the Stuff You Usually Scrap
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3.41 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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One Man's Trash: A History of the Cigar Box Guitar
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4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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Bicycle Dreaming
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Mridula Koshy (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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The Garbage King
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3.99 avg rating — 1,450 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Revolution in a Bottle: How Terracycle Is Eliminating the Idea of Waste
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4.10 avg rating — 146 ratings
score: 91,
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Make Garbage Great: The Terracycle Family Guide to a Zero-Waste Lifestyle
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3.68 avg rating — 76 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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Trash!: On Ragpicker Children and Recycling
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4.27 avg rating — 147 ratings
score: 88,
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Garbage
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4.06 avg rating — 761 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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Trash
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3.58 avg rating — 14,874 ratings
score: 82,
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1 person voted
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Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
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4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 81,
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1 person voted
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Not in My Backyard: Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities
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Sunita Narain (Editor)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 80,
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Mar 31, 2021 07:25AM
Some of these books were not added by me and don't belong here: Save the Ocean (Save the Earth, #1), Handbook for Mortals (Handbook for Mortals #1), Handbook for Mortals (Handbook for Mortals #1), Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, The Road, Andai Itu Takdirnya, Chocolate Wishes, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood.
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