Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters
by Oliver Franklin-Wallis · 21 Jun 2023 · 309pp · 121,279 words
or within specified time limits. Perhaps the most infamous example of the latter is the so-called ‘light bulb cartel’, when in 1925 representatives from the world’s largest light bulb manufacturers – including General Electric, Osram, and Philips – met in Geneva to discuss the problem of slumping sales. Up to that point, light
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon · 15 Jan 2000 · 1,051pp · 334,334 words
light-bulb cartel, headquartered in Switzerland. Run pretty much by International GE, Osram, and Associated Electrical Industries of Britain, which are in turn owned 100%, 29% and
The Day the World Stops Shopping
by J. B. MacKinnon · 14 May 2021 · 368pp · 109,432 words
Phoebus cartel
A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life
by Tara Button · 8 Feb 2018 · 315pp · 81,433 words
Phoebus Cartel, and had all agreed to send their bulbs to Switzerland