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

By: MacBride, Samantha .

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Urban and industrial environments: Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xii, 303 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780262016001 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0262016001 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780262516433 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0262516438 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Government policy -- United States

| Refuse and refuse disposal -- United States

DDC classification: 363.72/820973

Contents:

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.

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