Wasteland
The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters
Oliver Franklin-Wallis Simon & Schuster UK, £20
Every day, we throw our rubbish away. But as Rachel Salvidge notes in the Literary Review, there is no such thing as “away”. Our rubbish is moved from one spot on Earth to another, where it is either buried or transformed, whether through burning or recycling. “One person’s ‘away’ is another’s ‘here’.”
And where does it go? In his book, Oliver Franklin-Wallis lets us in
