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Wasteland
Oliver Franklin-Wallis (Simon & Schuster)
FROM sewers overflowing with human excrement to the crisis created by the fast-fashion industry, waste is everywhere. This makes Wasteland: The dirty truth about what we throw away, where it goes, and why it matters by Oliver Franklin-Wallis all the more pressing at present.
Franklin-Wallis specialises in long, narrative tales in his day job as features editor of the UK magazine GQ. In Wasteland, he tackles all elements of …
