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Adam Minter

Adam Minter is an American journalist and author. He is the Shanghai correspondent for Bloomberg World View.

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Adam Minter is an American journalist and author. He is the Shanghai correspondent for Bloomberg World View.1

In 2004, he received the first Stephen Barr Award for individual excellence in business feature writing for a series of investigative pieces on the emerging recycling industries in China for Scrap Magazine and, later, Recycling International.2

Books

  • Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019)345
  • Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013)6789
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References

  1. https://www.chinafile.com/contributors/adam-minter
  2. "Adam Minter". www.wpr.org. Wisconsin Public Radio. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  3. "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. June 4, 2020.
  4. Iglesias, Gabino (November 13, 2019). "What Happens To Your Used Stuff? 'Secondhand' Tells Of A Billion-Dollar Industry" – via NPR.
  5. Lisa Zeidner (2020-01-17). "What really happens to all that unwanted stuff you donate?". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
  6. "Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter – review". the Guardian. January 18, 2014.
  7. https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-60819-791-0
  8. Kiser, Barbara. "Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade." Nature, vol. 502, no. 7471, 17 Oct. 2013, p. 301. Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A359732404/HRCA?u=anon~c9e1f8fc&sid=googleScholar&xid=8ce555ea. Accessed 9 July 2022.
  9. Zimmerman, Martin (May 12, 2014). "In Print: Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade". Urban Land Magazine.
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