{"id":3918,"date":"2020-01-28T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T18:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2020-01-28T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T18:03:38","slug":"secondhand-by-adam-minter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/secondhand-by-adam-minter\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>Secondhand<\/b> by Adam Minter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/42972014-secondhand\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1566890539l\/42972014._SX98_.jpg\" alt=\"Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/42972014-secondhand\">Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/6906450.Adam_Minter\">Adam Minter<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/3164819234\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This very readable non-fiction exploration of the world of reuse, repurpose and sharing is both meaningful and enjoyable. Want to know where that old iPhone you donated to Goodwill ended up? Find out here. Learn why importers in Ghana or India like Canadian fashion clothes better than American ones. See why well-intentioned laws pushed by Greenpeace actually harm the environment and are arguably racist. Discover the complexities of the rag business. I found it all fascinating. Minter writes well. He brings to life a number of colorful characters and reveals how some unlikely spots around the globe are important to the secondhand business, places like Missisauga, Ontario; Petaling Jaya, Malaysia; Newark, New Jersey; Lebanon, Tennessee; and Agbogbloshie, Ghana. Here you can learn the difference between an antique, a collectible, and junk. Find out the devious tricks manufacturers use to make it difficult or impossible to fix their products, thus forcing people to buy new ones, and how enterprising entrepreneurs are defeating those techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Minter&#8217;s first book, <a title=\"Junkyard Planet Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/17286721.Junkyard_Planet_Travels_in_the_Billion_Dollar_Trash_Trade\" rel=\"nofollow\">Junkyard Planet<\/a>, dealt with recycling and waste disposal. This does not, except a bit tangentially. It is all about how things after a first use can be, and often are, acquired and put to a second use, or even third and fourth and fifth. This book will appeal to those who are environmentally conscious and those who just like to learn new stuff not written about elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12975428-russell-atkinson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale by Adam Minter My rating: 5 of 5 stars This very readable non-fiction exploration of the world of reuse, repurpose and sharing is both meaningful and enjoyable. Want to know where that old iPhone you donated to Goodwill ended up? Find out here. 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