Making a green machine : the infrastructure of beverage container recycling /

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"Making a Green Machine examines the development of the Scandinavian beverage container deposit-refund system, which has the highest return rates in the world, from 1970 to present. Finn Arne Jorgensen's comparative framework charts the complex network of business and political actors invo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jørgensen, Finn Arne, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2011.
Series:Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment.
Subjects:
Beverage containers > Recycling > Scandinavia.
Beverage containers > Recycling > United States.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Waste Management.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Beverage containers > Recycling
Scandinavia
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Bottles, Cans, and Everyday Environmentalism
  • 2. The Problem of Bottles
  • 3. Creating Bottle Infrastructures
  • 4. A World of Bottles
  • 5. Can Cultures
  • 6. Greening the RVM
  • 7. Making Disposables Environmentally Friendly
  • 8. Message in a Bottle.

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