Thought you'd appreciate this coverage of
Adam Minter's new book, Secondhand. He has already been interviewed by NPR OnPoint and Marketplace, and will be on Fresh Air on Cyber Monday. The concluding chapters of his book focus on our work, at Good Point, and in Ghana, on Fair Trade Recycling.
This has been a long and steady slog. Adam's research was enormously supported by interns from 2007 thru 2019. Adam was inspired to write this book at the 2013 Middlebury College Fair Trade Recycling Summit, and the research by interns at Memorial University, Univesidad Pontifica Catholica (Peru), USC, MIT, Middlebury, U of Amsterdam, U de Paul Cezanne, Univ Monterrey de Guadalajara, developed a tome of documentation and research (much of which was consolidated in the excellent 2018 MIT Press publication
Reassembling Rubbish by Dr. Josh Lepawsky).
