A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023A INCLUDED IN THE GUARDIAN’S BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF 2023 ?~A gripping read that will anger as much as it fascinates?T Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall?~An incredible journey into the world of rubbish, full of fascinating characters and mind-bending facts?T Oliver Bullough, author ofAMoneyland ?~Urgent, probing and endlessly interesting?T Cal Flyn, author ofAIslands of Abandonment’There are stories in all our discarded things: who made them, what they meant to a person before they were thrown away. In the end, it all ends up in the same place ?” the endless ingenuity of humanity in one filthy, fascinating mass.’ A When we throw things ?~away?T, what does that actually mean? Where does it go, and who deals with it when it gets there? In Wasteland, award-winning journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on an eye-opening journey through the global waste industry. From the mountainous landf