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 Stories About: green living AND recycling AND solid waste treatment and disposal AND United States
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Trash Talk
In Garbage Land, Elizabeth Royte talks dirty |
Jim Motavalli |
28 Jul 2005 |
Arts and Minds |
| Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte, Little Brown and Co., 320 pgs., 2005. Our soda man delivers. He comes bounding up the steps, easily cradling an ancient-looking wooden crate under one arm. The contents are 24 seven-ounce bottles of cola and birch beer, for which we hand him $7, and last month's crate. The thick, wavy glass bottles bear an old-fashioned logo that reads, "Castle ... |
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| Topics: green living, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States (all these topics) |
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