A review by staceen
Everyone's Trash: One Man Against 1.6 Billion Pounds by Duncan Watson

hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

3.0

The editor or lack thereof did this book such a disservice. Some parts were SO fascinating and I wanted to know more about the process of recycling and trash disposal. Duncan seems like a lovely man, but some of the personal anecdotes were sooo dull. The Charlie Brown stuff was a fun factoid but didn't need to be half as long as it was. 

This should have been a fascinating Boston magazine article, or a book about waste with the author's personal story peppered in to a larger narrative. 

Mostly I hated that he devoted chapters to the little idiosyncrasies of his former colleagues but his former wife wasn't even named. 
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