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First published in the United States 2019
Copyright © Adam Minter, 2019
Portions of the preface, chapter 2, and chapter 5 were originally published in different form in Bloomberg Businessweek as “Japan’s Lonely Death Industry.”
Portions of chapters 2, 5, and 8 were originally published in different form in Bloomberg Opinion as “What’s in Marie Kondo’s Closet?,” “Used Goods Could Be the New Thing in Asia,” and “No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore.”
Portions of chapter 12 were originally published in different form in Scrap as “Continental Drift” and the Shanghai Scrap blog as “Anatomy of a Myth: The World’s Biggest E-Waste Dump Isn’t.”
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ISBN: HB: 978-1-63557-010-6; eBook: 978-1-63557-012-0
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