When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that c

Conn Maxwell is designated to travel to Earth from the colony world of Poictesme, a world desperate for regeneration following an intersystem war, to try and id

An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerging field t

Man the machines and help clean up the junkyard in this rousing robot story that encourages community building. The yard has junk! Stacks and heaps and piles of

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