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Cash for your trash : scrap recycling in America /
In Cash for Your Trash, Carl A. Zimring provides a fascinating history of scrap recycling, from colonial times to the present. Integrating findings from archival, industrial, and demographic records, and moving beyond the environmental developments that have shaped modern recycling enterprises, Zimr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In Cash for Your Trash, Carl A. Zimring provides a fascinating history of scrap recycling, from colonial times to the present. Integrating findings from archival, industrial, and demographic records, and moving beyond the environmental developments that have shaped modern recycling enterprises, Zimring offers a unique cultural and economic portrait of the private businesses that made large-scale recycling possible. |
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| Notas: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Carnegie Mellon. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0813537916 9780813537917 9780813536866 0813536863 |