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  • Elizabeth Royte

    Elizabeth Royte is a Contributing Editor at the Food & Environment Reporting Network. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash; Bottlemania: How Water Went On Sale and Why We Bought It; and The Tapir’s Morning Bath: Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest. She has written for The New York Times magazine, National Geographic, Harper’s, Outside, and other magazines.

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