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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 18 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings by Saumya Roy
    Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings - by Saumya Roy

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788165372 | ISBN 10: 1788165373

    A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.  'If you read one book about India, read this one.' Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rag and Bone: A History of What We
    Rag and Bone: A History of What We've Thrown Away - by Lisa Woollett

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781473663985 | ISBN 10: 1473663989

    Lisa Woollett has spent her life combing beaches and mudlarking, collecting curious fragments of the past: from Roman tiles and Tudor thimbles, to Victorian buttons and plastic soldiers.   In a series of walks from the Thames, out to the Kent ... more

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  • Cover image of book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore
    A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things - by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788737746 | ISBN 10: 1788737741

    Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book How To Break Up With Fast Fashion by Lauren Bravo
    How To Break Up With Fast Fashion - by Lauren Bravo

    £12.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781472267740 | ISBN 10: 1472267745

    You probably know the statistics: global clothing production has roughly doubled in just 15 years, and every year an estimated 300,000 tonnes of used clothing ends up in UK landfill.  Fast fashion is the ultimate toxic relationship. It’s ba ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Go Waste Free: Eco Tips for Busy People by Caroline Jones
    How to Go Waste Free: Eco Tips for Busy People - by Caroline Jones

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787393479 | ISBN 10: 178739347x

    Every year, humankind dumps over 2 billion tons of waste. This either goes into landfill, is incinerated, or goes into our oceans - doing untold damage to the environment, wildlife and to our own bodies. What can we do, as individuals, to stem this t ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Give Up Plastic: Simple Steps to Living Consciously on Our Blue Planet by Will McCallum
    How to Give Up Plastic: Simple Steps to Living Consciously on Our Blue Planet - by Will McCallum

    £6.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241388938 | ISBN 10: 0241388937

    As read by James Corden, Fearne Cotton, Jim Chapman and Dougie Poytner.   'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David Attenborough   Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds ... more

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  • Cover image of book No. More. Plastic. What You Can Do to Make a Difference by Martin Dorey, with a Foreword by Chris Packham
    No. More. Plastic. What You Can Do to Make a Difference - by Martin Dorey, with a Foreword by Chris Packham

    £6.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785039874 | ISBN 10: 1785039873

    Have you got 2 minutes? Of course you have.  The ocean is in trouble. We must clean it up and stop the plastic at source.   The #2minutesolution is a simple, effective way to do this.   Read this book and discover the small ch ... more

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  • Cover image of book F**k Plastic: 101 Ways to Free Yourself From Plastic and Save the World by Various authors
    F**k Plastic: 101 Ways to Free Yourself From Plastic and Save the World - by Various authors

    £6.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781841883144 | ISBN 10: 184188314x

    An illustrated, empowering little book giving 101 practical and proactive tips on how to cut single-use plastic from your life.   Is the thought of the 51 trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans keeping you up at night? Don't panic! The war on pl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again by Lucy Siegle
    Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again - by Lucy Siegle

    £12.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781409182986 | ISBN 10: 1409182983

    An accessible, practical and ultimately inspiring book that not only serves as a much-needed call to arms to end the plastic pandemic, but gives useful tools on how to make meaningful change in our everyday lives and advice on how to demand long-last ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life Without Plastic: The Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Avoiding Plastic... by Jay Sinha and Chantal Plamondon
    Life Without Plastic: The Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Avoiding Plastic... - by Jay Sinha and Chantal Plamondon

    £16.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781624144257 | ISBN 10: 162414425x

    After the birth of their son, Jay Sinha and Chantal Plamondon set out on a journey to eliminate plastic baby bottles as the Canadian government moved to ban BPA. When they found it was difficult to procure glass baby bottles, Jay and Chantal made it ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trash Origami: 25 Paper Folding Projects Reusing Everyday Materials by Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander
    Trash Origami: 25 Paper Folding Projects Reusing Everyday Materials - by Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9784805313527 | ISBN 10: 4805313528

    Don't dump your wastepaper into the garbage it's time to fold!   World renowned origami artists and award-winning authors Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander show you the way with Trash Origami. This origami book presents unique and f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Life of Stuff: A Manual for a New Material World by Julie Hill
    The Secret Life of Stuff: A Manual for a New Material World - by Julie Hill

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099546580 | ISBN 10: 0099546582

    Would you like:   - Products that don’t damage the environment?  - A better way of life without agonising about your ‘footprint’?  - To really know your stuff?  Climate change? Biofuels? Nuclear power ... more

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  • Cover image of book Junk: Art and the Politics of Trash by Gillian Whiteley
    Junk: Art and the Politics of Trash - by Gillian Whiteley

    £16.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848854130 | ISBN 10: 1848854137

    An exploration of 'Junk' that focuses on art's historical and present appropriation of junk within our eco-conscious and globalised culture. It reveals the etymology of waste and the cultures of disposability within the Western Europe, the US and Aus ... more

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  • Cover image of book Recycle: The Essential Guide by Lucy Siegle
    Recycle: The Essential Guide - by Lucy Siegle

    £19.95   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781907317026 | ISBN 10: 1907317023

    Recycle: The Essential Guide is the indispensable handbook to recycling today. With vibrant visuals and a clear, accessible layout, the book is an invaluable resource that tackles everything from the urgency of resource depletion on a global scale to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart
    Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal - by Tristram Stuart

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141036342 | ISBN 10: 0141036346

    The world has a 'food problem' - rapidly rising prices, shortages, 100 million people starving, environmental depredation - or it thinks it does. This book shows that farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe disc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Precycle! by Paul Peacock
    Precycle! - by Paul Peacock

    £7.95   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781904871385 | ISBN 10: 1904871380

    Paul Peacock takes you on a trip down the supermarket aisles and shows you how you can make what you find on the shelves for a fraction of the cost: from butter, baked beans and cheese, to curing your own bacon, brewing your own beer and concocting y ... more

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  • Cover image of book Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: An Easy Household Guide by Nicky Scott and Axel Scheffler
    Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: An Easy Household Guide - by Nicky Scott and Axel Scheffler

    £4.95   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781903998939 | ISBN 10: 190399893x

    What do you do with your old mobile phone?  Where can you take your old medicines? Which foods are compostable? What happens to the stuff you recycle? This easy-to-use guide has the answers to all your recycling questions. Use its A-Z listing of ever ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond the Bin: The Livewire Guide to Reusing and Recycling by Jo Budd
    Beyond the Bin: The Livewire Guide to Reusing and Recycling - by Jo Budd

    £4.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780704349520 | ISBN 10: 0704349523

    Before you throw your next carton of juice away, just think where it will go - more than likely to a landfill site where it may never rot away.  In Beyond the Bin, environmentalist Jo Budd shows you just how much waste you can avoid in your d ... more

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