Research Catalog

Title

Waste : uncovering the global food scandal / Tristram Stuart.

Author

Stuart, Tristram.

Publication

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2009.

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Details

Description

xxii, 451 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill.; 20 cm.

Subjects

• Food industry and trade > Environmental aspects
• Food supply > Social aspects
• Food supply > Economic aspects
• Food conservation
• Food industry and trade > Waste minimization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-431) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. I. Perishing possessions -- 1. Liber-ate -- 2. Supermarkets -- 3. Manufacturers -- 4. Selling the sell-by mythology -- 5. Watching your wasteline -- 6. Losing ground : some environmental impacts of waste -- pt. II. Squandered harvests -- 7. Farming : potatoes have eyes -- 8. Fish : the scale of waste -- 9. Meat : offal isn't awful -- 10. Moth and mould : waste in a land of hunger -- 11. The evolutionary origins of surplus -- 12. Adding it all up and asking ... 'what if?' -- pt. III. Where there's muck there's brass -- 13. Reduce : food is for eating -- 14. Redistribute : the gleaners -- 15. Recycle : compost and gas -- 16. Omnivorous brethren : pigs and us -- 17. Islands of hope : Japan, Taiwan and South Korea -- 18. Action plan : a path to utrophia.

ISBN

• 0141036346 (pbk.)
• 9780141036342 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 312625963
• SCSB-11867426

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library