The Resource Recycling reconsidered : the present failure and future promise of environmental action in the United States, Samantha MacBride
Recycling reconsidered : the present failure and future promise of environmental action in the United States, Samantha MacBride
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- Summary
- Recycling is widely celebrated as an environmental success story. The accomplishments of the recycling movement can be seen in municipal practice, a thriving private recycling industry, and widespread public support and participation. In the United States, more people recycle than vote. But, as Samantha MacBride points out in this book, the goals of recycling--saving the earth (and trees), conserving resources, and greening the economy--are still far from being realized. The vast majority of solid wastes are still burned or buried. MacBride argues that, since the emergence of the recycling movement in 1970, manufacturers of products that end up in waste have successfully prevented the implementation of more onerous, yet far more effective, forms of sustainable waste policy. Recycling as we know it today generates the illusion of progress while allowing industry to maintain the status quo and place responsibility on consumers and local government. Most disturbingly, it does so with the strong support of environmental social movements that defend recycling even as they grapple with its shortcomings. MacBride offers a series of case studies in recycling that pose provocative questions about whether the current ways we deal with waste are really the best ways to bring about real sustainability and environmental justice. MacBride does not aim to debunk or discourage recycling but to help us think beyond recycling as it is today. In the name of ecological citizenship, she challenges us to consider larger problems of solid waste, the global range of environmental threats, and policy alternatives that go beyond curbside collection of cans, bottles, and paper
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 303 p.
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780262525244
- Label
- Recycling reconsidered : the present failure and future promise of environmental action in the United States
- Title
- Recycling reconsidered
- Title remainder
- the present failure and future promise of environmental action in the United States
- Statement of responsibility
- Samantha MacBride
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Recycling is widely celebrated as an environmental success story. The accomplishments of the recycling movement can be seen in municipal practice, a thriving private recycling industry, and widespread public support and participation. In the United States, more people recycle than vote. But, as Samantha MacBride points out in this book, the goals of recycling--saving the earth (and trees), conserving resources, and greening the economy--are still far from being realized. The vast majority of solid wastes are still burned or buried. MacBride argues that, since the emergence of the recycling movement in 1970, manufacturers of products that end up in waste have successfully prevented the implementation of more onerous, yet far more effective, forms of sustainable waste policy. Recycling as we know it today generates the illusion of progress while allowing industry to maintain the status quo and place responsibility on consumers and local government. Most disturbingly, it does so with the strong support of environmental social movements that defend recycling even as they grapple with its shortcomings. MacBride offers a series of case studies in recycling that pose provocative questions about whether the current ways we deal with waste are really the best ways to bring about real sustainability and environmental justice. MacBride does not aim to debunk or discourage recycling but to help us think beyond recycling as it is today. In the name of ecological citizenship, she challenges us to consider larger problems of solid waste, the global range of environmental threats, and policy alternatives that go beyond curbside collection of cans, bottles, and paper
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- MacBride, Samantha
- Dewey number
- 363.72/820973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- TD794.5
- LC item number
- .M285 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Urban and industrial environments
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Recycling (Waste, etc.)
- Refuse and refuse disposal
- Recycling (Waste, etc.)
- Refuse and refuse disposal
- United States
- Umweltpolitik
- USA
- Recycling
- Label
- Recycling reconsidered : the present failure and future promise of environmental action in the United States, Samantha MacBride
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-290) and index
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- 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
- Control code
- ocn700037609
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 303 p.
- Isbn
- 9780262525244
- Lccn
- 2010053623
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780262016001
- (OCoLC)700037609
- Label
- Recycling reconsidered : the present failure and future promise of environmental action in the United States, Samantha MacBride
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-290) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn700037609
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 303 p.
- Isbn
- 9780262525244
- Lccn
- 2010053623
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
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- (Sirsi) i9780262016001
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