Dreamscape Media
Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
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- Adam Minter
- Dreamscape Media
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- 9781690581338
- 5.5 X 6.5 X 1.1 inches
- 0.4 pounds
- Technology & Engineering > Environmental - Waste Management
- English
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When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the local thrift store, where do they go? Probably across the country--or even halfway across the world--to people and places eager to reuse what you don't want. In Secondhand, Adam Minter delves into the vast, multibillion-dollar industry that resells used stuff around the world. He follows the trail of unwanted objects from the closets, garages, and storage units of Middle America to epic used-goods markets in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Ghana, India, Malaysia, and beyond. Secondhand takes us through the often painful and heartbreaking process of cleaning out a lifetime's worth of possessions and shows that used stuff still has a place in a world that values the new and shiny--it entertains us, makes fortunes, fulfills needs, and transforms the way we live and work.
Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale
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Adam Minter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and he has reported from China and Asia-Pacific region. He holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago and his writings have appeared in a range of publications including the Atlantic to ArtNews.
He is the author of “Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade” and "Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale."
In 2003, he was awarded the Stephen Barr Award for Feature Writing from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, for his reporting on China's emerging scrap-recycling industry.
Source: Bloomberg.com and LinkedIn.com
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