La civilisation du déchet

Illustrated book, 152 pages.
mai 2024
with Jérémie Cavé and Yann Philippe Tastevin

Éditions Les Arènes
https://arenes.fr/livre/israel-palestine/

Put an end to preconceived ideas about waste and better understand the issues of today and tomorrow.

Every year, all of humanity produces more than 2 billion tons of waste, or 70 tons every second. Plastic alone weighs more than all the marine and terrestrial animals present on Earth... And yet, we have never had so little contact with our waste.

Two researchers, Jérémie Cavé and Yann Philippe Tastevin, and an illustrator, Alizée De Pin, investigated our waste to explain to us, in text and images, where it ends up and especially where it comes from.

By relying on illustrations and infographics that are clear and accessible to all, the authors give us a global vision of the problem. They dismantle our preconceived ideas, reconstruct the history of waste treatment since Antiquity and track six common consumer products: a tomato in winter, a T-shirt, a can of soda, a plastic bottle, a car and a smartphone.

A fascinating book on a subject that we would like to get rid of!