Garbage is an unlikely topic for a terrific coffee-table book, but the authors and publisher have come close with "Make Garbage Great: The TerraCycle Family Guide to a Zero-Waste Lifestyle." TerraCycle is a young company devoted to innovative recycling services as well as “upcycling,” an optimistic notion which holds that there’s a value-added world beyond the pyramid of reduce-reuse-recycle – that our everyday discards can be transformed into something better than the original item grown obsolete. One provocative example: TerraCycle turns cigarette filters into plastic pellets that can be used in the manufacture of durable plastic goods, like park benches and shipping pallets (with the paper and tobacco scraps being composted, of course).