I’m not from around Chicago (in fact, you *may* have heard me talking about my hometown. Quite a bit, in fact). ChiHackNight and the attendant community (whether manifested in this listhost, Tuesday Night or Slack) has been one of the reason I’ve stayed in Chicago for half a…

1. Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter — Minter’s excellent telling of the global trash trade. Get s a few key points, first of all being that reuse/recycling is driven by profit. Brings in the shipping idiosyncrasies that fueled growth in Japan, Taiwan and then…