The Global Trash Trade

I've just finished posting our most recent interview, Alec Ash talking to Adam Minter about the global trash trade. Minter is an American who comes from a mid-western scrapyard background, but has spent the last nine years living in China. I haven't read his book yet, but I think a looking at those two countries and economies in the context of trash is fascinating. One line of the interview in particular jumped out at me: "Modern China was, in part, built on the developed world’s waste." Trash is a big story which reveals a lot about our own culture and history. I really recommend taking the time to read it.