Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

His wife says it best: "I never knew garbage until I knew Adam Minter."

Minter spent his high school days working in the family scrap yard in the U.S., but these days he reports from Shanghai for Bloomberg, freelancing on the side for publications like Scrap and Recycling International.

After reading Junkyard Planet you'll have to agree: Minter certainly knows his scrap.