# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Adam Minter at Content with Secondhand
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 05 Dec, 2019 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 05 Dec, 2019 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Any idea what really happens to all your stuff after you're done using it? Join Adam Minter, author of JUNKYARD PLANET, as he talks with us about his new book SECONDHAND: TRAVELS IN THE NEW GLOBAL GARAGE SALE, a journey into the surprising afterlives of our former possessions. 

“Minter's travels through the afterlife of stuff are revelatory, terrifying, but, ultimately, hopeful. SECONDHAND helps us to see a world of possibility in the objects we discard.”
—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE SIXTH EXTINCTION

“This is a fascinating, eye-opening look at a dynamic, largely unseen world that only starts when one drops off something at a thrift store.”
—Publishers Weekly

Downsizing. Decluttering. A parent’s death. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local donation center, where do they go? Sometimes across the country—or even halfway across the world—to people and places who find value in what we leave behind.

From journalist Adam Minter, author of JUNKYARD PLANET, comes SECONDHAND: TRAVELS IN THE NEW GLOBAL GARAGE SALE, an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: from thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more. Along the way, Minter meets the fascinating people who handle—and profit from—our rising tide of discarded stuff, and asks a pressing question: In a world that craves shiny and new, is there room for it all?

SECONDHAND offers hopeful answers and hard truths. A history of the stuff we’ve used and a contemplation of why we keep buying more, it also reveals the marketing practices, design failures, and racial prejudices that push used items into landfills instead of new homes. Secondhand shows us that it doesn't have to be this way, and what really needs to change to build a sustainable future free of excess stuff.
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ADAM MINTER grew up in a family of scrap dealers in Minneapolis. He is the author of JUNKYARD PLANET: TRAVELS IN THE BILLION-DOLLAR TRASH TRADE and a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. He has written for the Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and other publications. He lives in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
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- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Nonprofit, trips-adventures
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Northfield
- **state**: MN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Content Bookstore
- **lat**: 44.45693
- **long**: -93.16012
- **full address**: Content Bookstore, 314 Division St S, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 05 Dec, 2019 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Content Bookstore, 314 Division St S, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, United States
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art, Nonprofit, trips-adventures
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