ChronoWaste™: The Civilizational Autobiography of Garbage | New eBook by Rahul Verma

Radhika BuildScience | eBook Release | 2025

Author:
Rahul Verma — Civil Consultant & Research Author, Radhika BuildScience

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About the Book

ChronoWaste™: The Civilizational Autobiography of Garbage presents a provocative reframe of history and legacy: that what endures through time is not monuments or laws, but residues. Rahul Verma argues that waste — from shards of pottery to plastics, nuclear byproducts, and digital detritus — is the most honest record of a civilization’s footprint. Blending archaeology, civil engineering, sustainability science, and philosophy, this work introduces the ChronoWaste Index™ and the Universal Laws of Residues to measure permanence and legacy in a new, unsettling light.

Highlights

• A cross-disciplinary framework linking waste, time, and societal memory
• Introduces the ChronoWaste Index™ — a metric for permanence of residues
• Case studies from ancient civilizations to the Anthropocene
• Essential reading for researchers, policy-makers, and curious thinkers

Core Thesis

Civilizations have always imagined immortality through monuments, scriptures, and technology. Yet, what truly survives across centuries and millennia is not greatness but garbage. Broken pottery outlives forgotten kings; amphorae fields map Roman trade more reliably than imperial lists. In our era, plastics, nuclear waste, and orbital debris will outlast skyscrapers, constitutions, and even languages. ChronoWaste™ argues that residues should be the primary lens through which we study legacy and responsibility.

Suggested Citation:
Verma, R. (2025). ChronoWaste™: The Civilizational Autobiography of Garbage. Radhika BuildScience / Amazon Kindle Publishing. Available at: https://amzn.in/d/gc61NK3

Why read this book? ChronoWaste™ is both a mirror and a warning — it forces readers to confront what humanity leaves behind and to rethink progress, policy, and preservation. Ideal for those curious about the intersection of engineering, archaeology, environment, and ethics.

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