Trash Backwards

Trash Backwards: Innovating Our Way to Zero Waste examines the various kinds of trash Americans are producing in staggering quantities, and profiles a range of innovative processes, people, and companies who are thinking creatively about how to not just reduce pressure on landfills, but redefine what's possible in the realm of recycling. This E-ssential offers insights into the motivations and inspirations of people working on cutting edge processes of waste management and land reclamation in America-from household trash to biowaste processing to reclaiming brownfields. We're at a critical juncture with our waste production- and among all of the other problems on Earth (climate change, war, stagnant economies), this is the one that ingenuity, as well as a little old-fashioned conservation, can put a big dent in, if not solve.

"In Trash Backwards David Naylor raises essential and provocative questions about the need to entirely rethink the whole concept of garbage-and how important it is to move toward a future where is no such thing as waste."---Elizabeth Grossman, author of "High Tech Trash"