Basura

How has our garbage changed over the course of history? What are the recycling processes? Whose garbage is it? What are the largest landfills in the world? How do incinerators work? Where does the yellow container go? What is true in "why should I separate the garbage if in the end they put it all together"? From Roman landfills like Monte Testaccio to modern incinerators, the history of garbage runs parallel to ours; it describes us as a society, tells how we live and how we are. And, even so, it is a very unknown subject and surrounded by false myths. In this work, the engineer Jesús Paniagua addresses the unknown world of waste in an entertaining and rigorous way. We will start in its history, from the rural world to the big cities; the logistics of collection and storage; separation and classification processes; the different recycling industries... A fascinating book, with extensive graphic documentation, which will give you an overview of this sector and its future prospects, and will answer such everyday questions as where the garbage goes every night.