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Recycling reconsidered : the present failure and future promise of environmental action in the United States /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacBride, Samantha
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]
Series:Urban and industrial environments.
Subjects:
Recycling (Waste, etc.) > Government policy > United States.
Refuse and refuse disposal > United States.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Waste Management.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Rags and bottles
  • Curbside recycling collection
  • Tonnage and toxicity : the nonissue of nonhazardous industrial waste
  • Scale and sufficiency : zero waste and the quest for environmental
  • Justice
  • Extended plastics responsibility : producers as reluctant stewards
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix i
  • Summary of the best available data from the us EPA on solid waste
  • Generation, disposal and recycling in the United States
  • Appendix ii
  • Summary of textile and glass disposal and recycling, for the most recent
  • Year available, in the United States
  • Appendix iii
  • Changes in MSW quantity and composition over time
  • Appendix iv
  • Fractions of MSW that can be targeted for reuse using a model of repair
  • Refurbishment, and retailing
  • Appendix v
  • Details on various quantities of different plastics in MSW
  • Appendix vi
  • Series list .