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Hes quite successful, i should add, although my righteous sense of moral recycling rectitude has suffered a bit of blow in the process. Minter s previous book, junkyard planet, investigated the international trade in rubbish. Junkyard planet reveals how going green usually means making moneyand why thats often the most sustainable choice, even when the recycling methods arent pretty. This particular passage, renamed the reincarnation machine, comes from one of my favorite chapters from the book, and concerns what amounts to the single most important device in this history of the recycling industry.
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