Planet of waste: an invisible, high-margin, high-risk, global recycling industry. The author is an American journalist from a family of recycling families. Five-Star recommendation

The book genre is a bit like documentary literature, the author of the waste recycling industry, the identity of American reporters, made a lot of Chinese waste recycling practitioners in the United States, in order to tell the story of the form, and gradually put the whole picture of the industry.

The authors of the last two generations are American waste recycling practitioners. The author is a journalist based in Shanghai, a news agency in the United States. I have been in Shanghai for more than 10 years when I came out of the book (2014).

The translation of the book is quite smooth. The only translation problem I noticed was the translation of "Super 8 hotel" into a "8 hotel".

Here are some of the information and ideas in the book:

1: Global Recycling also has an annual turnover of up to $500 billion, approximately equal to Norway's gross domestic product, and is the world's second-largest employee after agriculture;

2: Compared to any global industry, the risks and returns of today's recycling industry are comparable, if not higher;

3: It is much more environmentally friendly to transport waste paper from Los Angeles to China than by electric cars to Seattle.

4: Because China exports to the United States a large number of goods, imports of very little goods, resulting in the United States to China's cargo ship freight rate is lower, resulting in the United States shipped to China's low-cost goods, India to the Middle East exports more goods, imports less goods, so the U.S. waste shipped to India is more expensive than shipping to China;

5: In Guangdong, people imported scrap metal into a new product, and then exported to the export of these scrap metal countries, Taizhou imports of scrap metal is mostly left in China, such as the United States 80-90 years scattered across the country's waste motor, mostly in Taizhou waste utilization (dismantling or repair) after the output to the car, refrigerator, bicycle factory;

6: The United States environmental requirements are relatively high, China is relatively low, the consequences of the 2000 us from scrap metal refining copper factories have collapsed, China has become the world's largest copper smelting country, and has the world's most advanced technology, environmental standards of copper refinery;

7: Today, the recycling industry globalization is a timeless feature of the world economy, and the globalization of the smartphone industry is no different, the durability has not shrunk.

Planet of waste: an invisible, high-margin, high-risk, global recycling industry. The author is an American journalist from a family of recycling families. Five-Star recommendation