From Library Journal: "Pulitzer Prize and Pen Award winner Humes turns his impressive investigative skills to the subject of the economic and environmental consequences of America's waste crisis. Focusing on Puente Hills-the megalandfill serving the Los Angeles area and the largest municipal dump in the country-he explains how landfillsÅactually encourage Americans to discard (instead of recycle) because once hauled away, our trash is virtually invisible to us. But Humes also showcases some ecoenterprises that creatively repurpose refuse. Recology converts restaurant food waste into compost for California vineyards, and TerraCycle uses earthworms to convert university dining hall waste into fertilizer. There are even garbage dump artists who fashion works of art from trash. This is a horrifying, well-documented, and fascinating study of how profligate waste became a normal part of American consumer behavior and what it's going to take for our society to shift from a disposable economy to a reusable one...This should be a "One Book" reading selection in every American community."
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