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Front Cover
1

A history of waste management
2

Dear readers
3

Page of Contents
4

PRODUCTION
6

Mountains of altered rock, lakes of gleaming liquids
6

No energy without waste
8

The big waste factory
10

DISTRIBUTION
12

The packaging nightmare
12

Message ’round a bottle
14

CONSUMPTION
16

Consumption worlds
16

The relativity of basic needs
18

DISPOSAL
20

Counting the bins
20

Dump, bury or burn?
22

A model for waste processing?
24

Creative alternatives
26

Recycling – the right choice?
28

Discarding mastodons
30

Official waste trade routes
32

Crime industry diversifying
34

International mobilisation
36

Waste definitions and legislation
38

References and bibliography
40

List of maps and graphics
42

Back Cover
44