Recycling reconsidered : the present failure and future promise of environmental action in the United States / / Samantha MacBride

• Autore: MacBride Samantha
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: xii, 303 p
• Disciplina: 363.72/820973
• Soggetto topico: Recycling (Waste, etc.) - Government policy - United States; Refuse and refuse disposal - United States
• Soggetto non controllato: ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Series list.
• Sommario/riassunto: How the success and popularity of recycling has diverted attention from the steep environmental costs of manufacturing the goods we consume and discard.
• Titolo autorizzato: Recycling reconsidered
• ISBN: 0-262-29766-3; 1-283-44888-2; 9786613448880; 0-262-29855-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778960103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Urban and industrial environments.