What We Leave Behind av Stanislaw Lubienski

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<p><b>"Trash is a bit like birds. Both have their favourite habitats. I thought it might be worth taking a closer look at what we throw away and what it says about us. To follow the journey of the items we buy and discard. I wanted to find out more about what they''re made of and what fate the future has in store for them."</b><br><br>It starts with a day at the beach. A single white sock in the sand that somehow seems to spoil everything. It''s enough to send Polish reporter and ornithologist Stanislaw Lubienski on a quest to understand what we throw away, where it goes and whether it will be our lasting legacy. <br><br>By analysing items he unearths on his trips into nature - a plastic bottle, a tube of Russian penis-enlargement cream, a cigarette butt, an empty aerosol can - tracing their origins, their destination and the harm they can do, he shows how our consumer society has developed out of our control, to the point of environmental catastrophe.<br><br>He also looks with a birdw