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Waste. We spend a great deal of energy trying to avoid it, but once you train your eyes to look for it, you'll see it all around you - in your home, your business, and your everyday life. In Wasted, futurist Byron Reese and entrepreneur Scott Hoffman take readers on a fascinating journey through this modern world of waste, drawing on science, economics, and human behavior to envision what a world with far less of it - or none of it at all - might look like. Along the way, they explore thought-provoking issues such as * why the United States got a higher proportion of its energy from renewable sources in 1950 than it does today* whether the amount of gold in unused consumer electronics can be mined for profit* how switching to water fountains on a single flight from Singapore to Newark could prevent the use of 3,400 plastic bottles* whether the amount of money you save buying goods in bulk is offset by the amount you lose when some spoil Ultimately, the question of reducing waste is scientific, philosophical, and, most of all, complex.