EVER wondered where the gold in your wedding ring came from? What is fair about fair-trade coffee, or where the aluminium in Coke cans ends up after you recycle it? Wonder no more: Fred Pearce has spent a year tracing the life cycles of his belongings and has brought back a compelling volume of tales from the bowels of South Africa’s gold mines, the sweatshops of Bangladesh and the ships that ferry London’s waste down the river Thames. Sometimes frightening, always enlightening, it will teach you more about other people’s lives than you ever thought possible.
Confessions of an Eco…
