Rubbish!: Dirt On Our Hands and Crisis Ahead - Softcover

Rubbish, or garbage, is one of modern society's most pressing of environmental concerns.
Rubbish! is an examination of the problem of waste -- domestic and industrial -- in the U.K. and elsewhere. Challenging and controversial, this is a rigorous examination of the problem of waste worldwide and the efficacy of the public and private initiatives designed to forestall a crisis fast ballooning into catastrophe.
This is the story of our rubbish -- from the first human bowel movement to the littering of outer space. It is an investigation of the looming problem of waste in the 21st century -- our fridge mountain; our crumbling sewers; trading waste; packaging waste; the enormity of our industrial waste; spam emails and new forms of waste; horrors of incineration . . . And it is an attempt to find a blueprint for our survival: the way our lives may have to change.

Richard Girling was editorial manager of the Sunday Times Magazine, had a regular column for the Daily Telegraph during the 1990s, and is now a senior feature writer on the Sunday Times Magazine. He won the Evian Award in 1989 for a special issue of Sunday Times Magazine on the medical effects of alcohol and, in 2002, the Specialist Writer of the Year at the UK Press Awards. He is a consultant to Reader’s Digest and to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.