Download or read book Throwaway Nation written by Jeff Dondero and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US leads the world in many ways, including the amount of waste we produce. Although we constitute less than 5 percent of the world’s population, we use up to 30 percent of the world’s resources, and per capita we generate the most trash. Throwaway Nation illuminates the problem and suggests ways we can mitigate this environmental disaster.