03641nam 2200589 450 991081959290332120240102112708.09781477323717(electronic bk.)978147732370010.7560/765450(MiAaPQ)EBC6809623(Au-PeEL)EBL6809623(CKB)19919498500041(OCoLC)1286024400(DE-B1597)617633(DE-B1597)9781477323717(OCoLC)1291507495(EXLCZ)991991949850004120220809d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierResisting garbage the politics of waste management in American cities /Lily Baum PollansAustin, Texas :University of Texas Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (208 pages)Print version: Pollans, Lily Baum Resisting Garbage Austin : University of Texas Press,c2021 9781477323700 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexResisting 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.Refuse and refuse disposalMassachusettsBostonRecycling (Waste, etc.)Washington (State)SeattleRecycling (Waste, etc.)MassachusettsBostonRefuse and refuse disposalUnited StatesRecycling (Waste, etc.)United Stateswaste management, recycling, waste studies, post-consumer, consumption studies, environmental studies, urban planning, environmental planning, sustainability, sustainable cities.Refuse and refuse disposalRecycling (Waste, etc.)Recycling (Waste, etc.)Refuse and refuse disposalRecycling (Waste, etc.)363.72/850973Pollans Lily Baum1687738MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819592903321Resisting garbage4061448UNINA