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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795334303321

Autore

Pollans Lily Baum

Titolo

Resisting garbage : the politics of waste management in American cities / / Lily Baum Pollans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9781477323717

9781477323700

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages)

Disciplina

363.72/850973

Soggetti

Refuse and refuse disposal - Massachusetts - Boston

Recycling (Waste, etc.) - Washington (State) - Seattle

Recycling (Waste, etc.) - Massachusetts - Boston

Refuse and refuse disposal - United States

Recycling (Waste, etc.) - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Evolution of America’s Weak Recycling Waste Regime -- 2. Non-Planning for Garbage in Boston -- 3. Deconstructing Garbage: Radical Reframing in Seattle -- 4. Compliant and Defiant Wasteways: Boston and Seattle within the WRWR -- 5. Resisting Garbage -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding practices of waste removal and recycling in American cities, one that is grounded in the close observation of case studies while being broadly applicable to many American cities today. Most current waste practices in the United States, Lily Baum Pollans argues, prioritize sanitation and efficiency while allowing limited post-consumer recycling as a way to quell consumers’ environmental anxiety. After setting out the contours of this “weak recycling waste regime,” Pollans zooms in on the very different waste management stories of Seattle and Boston over the last forty years. While Boston’s local politics resulted in a waste-export program with minimal recycling, Seattle created new frameworks for



thinking about consumption, disposal, and the roles that local governments and ordinary people can play as partners in a project of resource stewardship. By exploring how these two approaches have played out at the national level, Resisting Garbage provides new avenues for evaluating municipal action and fostering practices that will create environmentally meaningful change.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910679880103321

Titolo

Abhigyan : the journal of Foundation of Organisational Research

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[New Delhi], : The Foundation

ISSN

2583-1445

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

658/.00954

Soggetti

Industrial management - India

Organizational behavior

Industrial management

Periodicals.

India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed