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Title: Recycle this Book!
Review: Ms. Royte style lacks the irony and the sharpened sarcasm the subject demands. She quickly establishes that: 1) Americans are wasteful; 2) People in the trash hauling industry might be (horrors!) corrupt; 3) The recycling folks might not be much better; 4) Garbage has alway been a problem; 4) There are no easy answers. A four minute report on "All Things Considered" could have told me the same things, and no trees would have died in the telling.Throughout my reading, I felt this sneaking feeling that the author really wanted to write a book, and all the good subjects were taken. Hey, Sullivan just did one on Rats, and somebody covered the history of screwdrivers a couple of years ago, so Ms. Royte got left holding the ol' literary Hefty bag.Not real illuminating, not real entertaining -- like the cabbage leaves on my compost pile, just sort of droopy and lifeless and there.
