Garbage syllabus
1. 
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
by:
Adam Minter
3.90 avg rating — 1,763 ratings 
6. 
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change
by:
Annie Leonard
4.08 avg rating — 4,343 ratings 
11. 
Outsmart Waste: The Modern Idea of Garbage and How to Think Our Way Out of It
by:
Tom Szaky
3.74 avg rating — 147 ratings 
15. 
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
by:
Richard Louv
3.93 avg rating — 14,739 ratings 
15. 
Why Shrinkwrap a Cucumber?: The Complete Guide to Environmental Packaging
by:
Stephen Aldridge
3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings 19. 
The Secret Life of Stuff: A Manual for a New Material World
by:
Julie Hill
3.29 avg rating — 78 ratings 20. 
Of Poverty and Plastic (OIP): Scavenging and Scrap Trading Entrepreneurs in India's Urban Informal Economy
by:
Kaveri Gill
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 
20. 
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
by:
Austin Kleon
3.96 avg rating — 324,514 ratings 
20. 
The Zero-Waste Lifestyle: Live Well by Throwing Away Less
by:
Amy Korst
3.61 avg rating — 913 ratings 
20. 
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
by:
Miranda Paul
4.35 avg rating — 2,046 ratings 
28. 
Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
by:
Robin Nagle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 705 ratings 28. 
Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set up and Maintain a Worm Composting System, Second Edition
by:
Mary Appelhof
4.19 avg rating — 1,652 ratings 28. 
Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
by:
Edward Humes
4.24 avg rating — 341 ratings 
35. 
Scraps, Wilt & Weeds: Turning Wasted Food into Plenty
by:
Mads Refslund
3.66 avg rating — 99 ratings 
37. 
One Man's Trash: A History of the Cigar Box Guitar
by:
William J. Jehle
4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings 
41. 
Revolution in a Bottle: How Terracycle Is Eliminating the Idea of Waste
by:
Tom Szaky
4.10 avg rating — 146 ratings 42. 
Make Garbage Great: The Terracycle Family Guide to a Zero-Waste Lifestyle
by:
Tom Szaky
3.68 avg rating — 76 ratings 
47. 
Not in My Backyard: Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities
by:
Sunita Narain
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings