Recycling reconsidered [electronic resource] : the present failure and future promise of environmental action in the United States / Samantha MacBride.

By: MacBride, SamanthaContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Urban and industrial environmentsPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012Description: xii, 303 pISBN: 9780262298551 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Government policy -- United States | Refuse and refuse disposal -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.72/820973 LOC classification: TD794.5 | .M285 2012Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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