Elizabeth Royte
Auteur de Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
A propos de l'auteur
Elizabeth Royte has written for the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, National Geographic, Outside, Smithsonian, and the New Yorker. She is the author of Garbage Land and The Tapir's Morning Bath.
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Œuvres de Elizabeth Royte
Money Bags 1 exemplaire
Fracking the Amish 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 20th Century
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
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- Œuvres
- 7
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- 4
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- 996
- Popularité
- #25,871
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 44
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- 16
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- 2
Elizabeth got the idea to investigate the fairies. The book opens with Elizabeth weighing the garbage against the average American’s garbage output of 4.3 pounds per day. Her daily weightings gave me a feeling of gross out and laughter.
This is the theme of most of the book. In her tours of landfills, treatment plants, recycling centers, and the sewer systems she met hostility, regulations, and confronting the enormity of the situation.
Elizabeth faces a difficult situation of describing some of the buildings, machinery, and systems of our trash. How can one describe tons of trash? And perhaps the most difficult of all … how can she describe the smells?
Thankfully, Elizabeth has done that for us and open up a few eyes that there are no garbage or toilet fairies.… (plus d'informations)