Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale Audiobook (Free)

When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the neighborhood thrift store, where do each goes? Probably across the country-or also halfway across the world-to people and places wanting to reuse everything you don’t desire. In Secondhand, Adam Minter delves into the huge, multibillion-dollar industry that resells utilized stuff all over the world. He comes after the trail of unwanted items in the closets, garages, and storage units of Middle America to epic used-goods marketplaces in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Ghana, India, Malaysia, and beyond. Secondhand will take us through the often painful and heartbreaking procedure for cleaning out a lifetime’s well worth of belongings and shows that utilized stuff still has a place in a global that values the new and shiny-it entertains us, makes fortunes, fulfills demands, and transforms just how we live and function.