num_pages: 185
description: For US policy makers &amp; citizens who are grappling with the question of how to handle this countrys mounting municipal garbage &amp; commercial wastes, this report offers a revolutionary approach taken by Germany to promote both recycling &amp; source reduction. German legislation is stimulating industry efforts to reduce packaging &amp; product waste by requiring that the businesses producing packages &amp; products be financially responsible for taking back their used materials &amp; recycling, reusing or disposing of them. This report describes what Germans have done in solid waste policies, the difficulties they are confronting &amp; the impact on wastes to date. It discusses environmental problems that the US &amp; other industrialized countries face, identifies practical solutions: programs &amp; policies that work to conserve our valuable air, land, water &amp; natural resources &amp; enable us to live &amp; do business less wastefully.
title: Germany, Garbage, & the Green Dot: Challenging the Throwaway Society
titlecomplete: Germany, Garbage, & the Green Dot: Challenging the Throwaway Society
publisher: Diane Pub.