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Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It's befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet in transportation usage and waste, and we're now polluting outer space. Throwaway Nation takes a look at the pileup of waste in the US, including the problem of plastic, the industry of overmedication, e-waste products, everyday garbage, fast fashion trash, space waste, and other forms of profligacy that serve to make our nation the biggest waster on the planet. Looking at the environmental impact of so much garbage, Dondero explores not just how we got here and where we're headed, but ways in which we might be able to curb the tide. From what you do and don't eat, what and how your products are packaged, the rampant production of clothes, the space and waste in which you work, live, what you breath, eat, drink, the tools you use to work and play, the energy overproduced and ill-used for a pleasant lifestyle, the waste you generate, and how humans are beginning to clutter the cosmos - all and more are profiled in the Throwaway Nation - and what we ought to do to prohibit and mitigate the flow of our garbage and to use it productively.
About the Author
Jeff Dondero has a diverse background and experience in writing, ranging from web content, B2B, books, hard and soft news, and interviews to feature writing, to Internet content. He began his career as stringer and freelancer for the San Francisco Examiner, worked as a reporter and editor for several suburban newspapers, was the entertainment editor for The Marin Independent Journal, a writer and editor for various magazines, wrote for KTVU-TV in the San Francisco Bay Area, toiled in a trade magazine mill, and co-created a website dedicated to sustainable construction industries, Green Building Digest.He was invited as a writer-in-residence at the art colony in Rancho Vista, Arizona in 2014. He continues to expand his national readership with books, social media, various writers' blogs and websites, radio and television appearances.His books include: The Energy Wise Home, The Energy Wise Workplace, and to be released this year, Throwaway Nation all published by Rowman & Littlefield. Other books include: So Do You Want To Survive A Natural Disaster, Brutal Beauty, a collection of poems written as a writer in residence in Linda Vista art colony, and The Marin Companion, published by Boomer Publications.My newest release, (this month) is Throwaway Nation, the ugly truth about America's garbage. It's a fun and insightful piece about the ways in which we produce the most garbage in the world--and beyond. It covers everything from the history of trash and littering, to the waste of air, land, and water, the excesses of food, electronics, charity, to paper and plastics, and meds, and the sometimes bizarre and bodacious spending habits of our government and its elected officials--the spastic spending called the "pork barrel." It's a fun romp through our throwaways that will both amuse, edify, and annoy.Check out my fac ebook pages and my blog: https://v4.simplesite.com/#/pages/442071344? editmode=true#anchor442071344
