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Recycling reconsidered : the present failure and future promise of environmental action in the United States /
How the success and popularity of recycling has diverted attention from the steep environmental costs of manufacturing the goods we consume and discard.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Urban and industrial environments.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- Fractions of municipal solid waste referred to in the conclusion.