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From the author of Junkyard Planet, "an anthem to decluttering, recycling, making better quality goods and living a simpler life with less stuff." -Associated PressDownsizing. Decluttering. Discarding. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local donation center, where do they go? Sometimes across the country-or even halfway across the world-to peopl...

This global exploration follows unwanted objects' journeys into a reusable future.

Journalist Minter takes readers on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more.

Have you ever wondered what happens to the newspaper or can after you throw it in the recycling bin? Here, Minter travels deep into the vast, 500-billion-dollar industry to find out.

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