Recycling reconsidered
Subtitle: the present failure and future promise of environmental action in the United States
By: Samantha MacBride
Series: Urban and industrial environments
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780262016001
Subjects: Refuse and refuse disposal; Government policy; Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Rags and bottles; title: Curbside recycling collection; title: Tonnage and toxicity : the nonissue of nonhazardous industrial waste; title: Scale and sufficiency : zero waste and the quest for environmental; title: Justice; title: Extended plastics responsibility : producers as reluctant stewards; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix i  - Summary of the best available data from the us EPA on solid waste; title: Generation, disposal and recycling in the United States; title: Appendix ii - Summary of textile and glass disposal and recycling, for the most recent; title: Year available, in the United States; title: Appendix iii - Changes in MSW quantity and composition over time; title: Appendix iv - Fractions of MSW that can be targeted for reuse using a model of repair; title: Refurbishment, and retailing; title: Appendix v - Details on various quantities of different plastics in MSW; title: Appendix vi; title: Series list .