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A review by ashleykhoffman
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter
2.0
I don't want my low rating of this book to be a full deterrent from reading it. I rated this book relatively poorly because it needed a few more rounds of editing. It was presented in chronological order, but I think it could have been more effective in like-category order so there wouldn't have been dozens of pages of redundant information and lackluster transitions. There were (a lot of) unnecessary details that detracted from the message of the text, which I don't think was fully framed and presented until the last chapter.
I have a Master's degree in energy and sustainability and my focus for my degree work was in biological trash waste so I was so excited to learn about another side of the waste world. I think this was the right author for the task but because I felt the information wasn't organized interestingly or effectively, it took me almost 5 months to push my way through this book. The content was compelling, I did learn a lot, and I do not regret reading this for a second, BUT it had the potential to have been a lot better and I think with a different flow structure it would be reaching a much wider audience.
I have a Master's degree in energy and sustainability and my focus for my degree work was in biological trash waste so I was so excited to learn about another side of the waste world. I think this was the right author for the task but because I felt the information wasn't organized interestingly or effectively, it took me almost 5 months to push my way through this book. The content was compelling, I did learn a lot, and I do not regret reading this for a second, BUT it had the potential to have been a lot better and I think with a different flow structure it would be reaching a much wider audience.