Breaking the cycle of municipal solid waste management in the United States : a contemporary biotechnic approach
Journal: Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library)
Year: 2017

Solid waste management in the United States is one urban practice that provides evidence for, and reinforces Marx’s theory of urban “metabolic rift.” However, urban planners as a field have historically shifted the onus for solid waste issues to engineers and private citizens. By avoiding waste, planners have dismissed a basic portion of their responsibility to the public and violated their own code of ethics. Repairing the metabolic balance of cities is admittedly a colossal undertaking. It wil