Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

Disclaimer: Adam is a personal friend and I received a copy for an honest review.

I loved the book and couldn't put it down. It was fascinating to explore the entire “supply” chain of the secondhand market, and how seemingly good movements such as banning “plastic waste from the West” has a surprisingly long-term negative effect on the environment and on the economies of developing nations. Basically, don't take things at face value - there's more to the recycling, secondhand business than meets the eye. We need to move beyond reacting to well-intentioned propaganda from “green” folks by banning things to really, really exploring how the world can manage stuff (and all the things it's made of) sustainably.

I wrote an article on his book: https://www.elizabethtai.com/blog/secondhand-adam-minter