Local author and recycling expert, Duncan Watson has been running the City of Keene’s solid waste program for over 30 years. Each day, every single person in the United States, all 324 million, discards about five pounds of waste. Be it a bottle that gets placed in a recycling bin or a piece of paper crumpled and tossed into the waste bin, every bit of the daily 1.6 billion pounds cast-off has a story. This book is full of those stories. It will wake you up and give you hope. Join Duncan and plan to learn more about how we can all fight against 1.6 billion pounds for this Earth Day.


