Gone Tomorrow

The Hidden Life of Garbage

Heather Rogers

288 pages, parution le 20/12/2005

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Résumé

Every day a phantasmagoric rush of spent, used and broken riches flows through our homes, offices, and cars. Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you're soon faced with a bewildering amount of trash. The United States is the planet's number one producer of garbage, with each American throwing out 4.5 pounds daily. But garbage is also a global problem; the middle of the Pacific Ocean is six times more abundant with plastic waste than zooplankton. So how did we end up with this much trash? And why do we handle it the way we do?

Journalist Heather Rogers addresses these issues by guiding us through the grisly, oddly fascinating underworld of trash. Excavating the history of rubbish handling from the 1800s-an era of garbage-grazing urban hogs and dump-dwelling rag pickers-to the present, with its high-tech "mega-fills" operated by multi-billion dollar garbage corporations, Rogers investigates the roots of today's waste-addicted culture. Gone Tomorrow also explores the politics of recycling, which is popular but has serious limitations, and is only the first step toward more fundamental solutions such as reuse and the reduction of packaging.

Combining a gripping exposé with a potent argument for change, Rogers's book traces the connections between modern industrial production, consumer culture and our throwaway lifestyle.

L'auteur - Heather Rogers

Heather Rogers is a writer, journalist, and filmmaker. Her documentary film Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage (2002) screened in festivals around the globe. Her articles have appeared in Utne Reader, Z Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, Bad Subjects, Punk Planet, Third Text, and Art and Design. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Conquest of Garbage
The "Waste Stream"
Rubbish Past
Rationalized Waste
Technological Fix: The Sanitary Landfill
The Golden Age of Waste
Spaceship Earth: Waste and Environmentalism
Recycling: The Politics of Containment
The Corporatization of Garbage
Green by Any Means
Notes
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	The New Press
Auteur(s)	Heather Rogers
Parution	20/12/2005
Nb. de pages	288
Format	14 x 19,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	387g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781565848795
ISBN13	978-1-56584-879-5