Waste

Catherine Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, an area with a violent, racist past. Today, she leads a movement for basic sanitation, a right many Americans take for granted, but which is denied to too many, especially the rural poor. Flowers exposes America's dirty secret, revealing how systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice create Third World conditions across the country. This book chronicles her journey from country girl to civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion, highlighting how climate change is making sanitation an urgent problem for all.