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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe JUNKYARD PLANET: TRAVELS IN THE BILLION-DOLLAR TRASH TRADE * _Adam Minter_ Bloomsbury (2013) Junk really is filthy lucre — the basis of a


global scrap trade worth up to US$500 billion a year, writes Adam Minter. Scion of a professional recycling family, Minter anatomizes this complicated, half-hidden industry that he argues


is, even at its dirtiest, greener than harvesting raw resources. He focuses on scrap metal, a prized commodity now recycled in innovative ways, and the kingpins of the trade. Leonard Fritz,


for instance, rose from extreme poverty to run the Michigan-based Huron Valley Steel Corporation, which annually processes almost half a million tonnes of shredded automobile. This is a


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Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Kiser, B. Books in brief. _Nature_ 502, 301 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/502301a Download citation * Published: 16 October


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