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Recycling is widely celebrated as an environmental success story. The accomplishments of the recycling movement can be seen in municipal practice, a thriving private recycling industry, and widespread public support and participation. In the United States, more people recycle than vote. But, as Samantha MacBride points out in this book, the goals of recycling -- saving the earth (and trees), conserving resources, and greening the economy -- are still far from being realized. The vast majority of solid wastes are still burned or buried. MacBride argues that, since the emergence of the recycling movement in 1970, manufacturers of products that end up in waste have successfully prevented the implementation of more onerous, yet far more effective, forms of sustainable waste policy. Recycling as we know it today generates the illusion of progress while allowing industry to maintain the status quo and place responsibility on consumers and local government.MacBride offers a series of case studies in recycling that pose provocative questions about whether the current ways we deal with waste are really the best ways to bring about real sustainability and environmental justice. She does not aim to debunk or discourage recycling but to help us think beyond recycling as it is today.
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9780262016001 | Mit Pr, December 9, 2011, cover price $6.75 | About this edition: Recycling is widely celebrated as an environmental success story.
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9780262525244 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, August 16, 2013), cover price $19.00
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9781583334348 | Avery Pub Group, April 19, 2012, cover price $27.00
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9781583335239 | Reprint edition (Avery Pub Group, March 5, 2013), cover price $16.00
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9781614707875 | Nova Science Pub Inc, October 1, 2011, cover price $230.00
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9781573020640 | Revised edition (Information Plus, March 1, 1998), cover price $32.00
Twenty-nine essays debate such issues as recycling, hazardous waste, government regulations, and garbage
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9781565105652 | Greenhaven Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $22.45 | About this edition: Twenty-nine essays debate such issues as recycling, hazardous waste, government regulations, and garbage
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9781565105669 | Greenhaven Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Twenty-nine essays debate such issues as recycling, hazardous waste, government regulations, and garbage
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9781558212503 | Lyons Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Discusses source reduction, recycling, incineration, landfills, and facility siting and financing
Discusses source reduction and recycling
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9781558212299 | Lyons Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Discusses source reduction and recycling
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9780442010485 | Reprint edition (Van Nostrand Reinhold, April 1, 1992), cover price $44.95
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9780160055751 | United States Government Printing, November 1, 1989, cover price $16.00
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9781878071026 | Worldwatch Inst, January 1, 1991, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: Discarding the Throwaway Society (Worldwatch paper)
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9780814423431 | Amacom Books, December 1, 1989, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Book by Erwin, Lewis, Healy, L.
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9780933280922 | Island Pr, November 1, 1989, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: War on Waste offers a comprehensive analysis of the solid waste problem and the major alternatives that could provide viable solutions to the crisis.
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9780933280915, titled "War on Waste: Can America Win the Battle With Garbage" | Island Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: War on Waste offers a comprehensive analysis of the solid waste problem and the major alternatives that could provide viable solutions to the crisis.
One day in March 1987, a barge from Islip, Long Island was evicted from Morehead City, North Carolina, after trying to unload the mountains of trash on its decks. More than five months from the time it began its trip, the unwelcome barge, and it's 3,186 tons of commercial garbage, became the cornerstone of an astonishing news investigation that revealed a country unable to cope with its mounting garbage crisis.Newsday reporters were the first to locate the barge, the Mobro 4000 as it drifted aimlessly off the shore of Long Island. They were also first to explore and explain the problems and issues that barge had come to symbolize. The results of their investigation are presented in this book. Winner of the Worth Bingham Award, the Page One Award for Crusading Journalism, and the New York State Associated Press Award for In-Depth Reporting, Rush to Burn explains the reasons why we, as a throw-away society, are suffocating in our own trash. It also explains why communities, in desperation, are turning to incineration, the riskiest form of garbage disposal yet developed.
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9781559630016, titled "Rush to Burn: Solving America's Garbage Crisis?" | Island Pr, May 1, 1989, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: One day in March 1987, a barge from Islip, Long Island was evicted from Morehead City, North Carolina, after trying to unload the mountains of trash on its decks.
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9781559630009 | Island Pr, July 1, 1989, cover price $22.00
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9780917582370 | Inst for Local Self Reliance, May 1, 1989, cover price $50.00
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9780126912456 | Academic Pr, February 1, 1989, cover price $73.00
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9780918780478 | Inform, March 1, 1988, cover price $3.50
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9780849346460 | CRC Pr I Llc, October 1, 1987, cover price $364.00
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9780138228910 | Prentice Hall, January 1, 1987, cover price $38.00
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