Adam Minter, the author of “Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade,” has written a new book. In it, he tells the story of our excess. The book is “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale,” and its an excellent narration about our overaccumulation and the underlying systems it supports.
- From the accumulation stage to death where the children sort and weed through things.
- Then to the donation centers and the dump to individuals.
- Yet again or different countries, depending on the item, the stories are fascinating.
Adam Minter travels the globe to explore the story of our cast-offs as they are reclaimed, restored, and resold to distant places.
If you’re decluttering, this different perspective on what our tendencies for more and more is causing may help change the way you think.
An exciting read, it also engages you in the story exploring the ever-growing amount of goods discarded and the stories behind them. The book offers story form and tidbits that keep the reader happy to read, through the horror of it all, to possibly some hopefulness that we can make a change and awaken from this consumer economy.
