What happens after you throw out the trash? Royte takes the reader every step of the way along the trail of garbage, examining the business, societal and scientific aspects of waste disposal.
Critic Reviews
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Outstanding
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Library Journal Irwin Weintraub
Royte's exploration of the economic, territorial, and ecological perspectives of garbage disposal adds up to a fascinating trail of trash. Recommended for all who throw things away. [1 Jul 2005, p. 117]
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Outstanding
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Washington Post Jabari Asim
As impressive as Royte's doggedness and investigative skill is the care she takes with language.
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Outstanding
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Publishers Weekly
A comprehensive, readable foray into a world we'd prefer not to heed -- but should.
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Favorable
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Kirkus Reviews
Royte is a natural storyteller and skillful natural historian. Few others could have pulled off turning our feculence into fascination.
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Favorable
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The New Yorker
An impassioned attack on overconsumption in America.
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Favorable
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Houston Chronicle Rachel Graves
A (mostly) fascinating book about garbage.
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Favorable
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Boston Globe Glenn C. Altschuler
Surrounded by sobering statistics, Royte is a modern-day, modernist muckraker, exhibiting more irony, realism, and resignation than righteous indignation
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Favorable
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Chicago Sun-Times Gary Wisby
Anyone who cares about the environment half as much as Royte does should read this book. Then, recycle it. Or better yet, give it away.
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Favorable
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Christian Science Monitor Clayton Collins
There's little waste in Royte's winning words... Seldom has garbage been handled with such care.
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Favorable
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San Francisco Chronicle Tess Taylor
Royte has opened an important query and begun to highlight the weird problem of waste and wasting and the odd systems and costs of a society that values and then devalues material objects so quickly.
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Mixed
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Entertainment Weekly Nicholas Fonseca
Royte recounts her adventures in detailed -- if overearnest -- prose that's alive with observation
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Mixed
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The New York Times William Grimes
[Royte's] argument is moral rather than economic.
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Mixed
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The New York Times Book Review Neil Genzlinger
Royte sounds smart; it's hard for the reader not to wonder what else she might have done with all those hours she spent washing out her used yogurt containers.
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Mixed
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Bookslut James Campbell Martin
Garbage Land is excellently written and doggedly researched and reported, and Royte is a funny and observant companion. I only wish she had made a few more judgments to help me make my own.
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