Recycling reconsidered the present failure and future promise of environmental action in the United States / [electronic resource] :
Samantha MacBride.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.
- xii, 303 p.
- Urban and industrial environments .
- Urban and industrial environments. .
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.
9780262298551 (electronic bk.)
Recycling (Waste, etc.)--Government policy--United States. Refuse and refuse disposal--United States.