Recycling reconsidered [electronic resource] : the present failure and future promise of environmental action in the United States / Samantha MacBride.
Series: Urban and industrial environmentsPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.Description: xii, 303 pISBN:- 9780262016001 (hardcover alk. paper)
- 9780262298551 (e-book)
- 363.72/820973 22
- TD794.5 .M285 2012eb
eBooks
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.
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