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Yesterday’s keynote at WasteExpo Together Online looked at “Stuff: The Hidden Borderland of Waste and Recycling.”
The speaker was Adam Minter, author of “Junkyard Planet” and “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale,” and journalist at Bloomberg. His talk offered a provocative look at why the growing tide of “single-use stuff”—from fashion to furniture—should concern waste and recycling professionals, perhaps even more than better-known problems like single-use plastics.