"Minter's travels through the afterlife of stuff are revelatory, terryfing, but, ultimately, hopeful. 'Secondhand' helps us to see a world of possibility in the objects we discard." ―Elizabeth Kolbert
"Revelatory, terrifying, but, ultimately, hopeful." -Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE SIXTH EXTINCTIONFrom the author of Junkyard Planet, a journey into the surprising afterlive
When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it