Carl A Zimring

Cash For Your Trash

Scrap Recycling in America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Cash for Your Trash, Carl A. Zimring provides a fascinating history of scrap recycling, from colonial times to the present. Integrating findings from archival, industrial, and demographic records, and moving beyond the environmental developments that have shaped modern recycling enterprises, Zimring offers a unique cultural and economic portrait of the private businesses that made large-scale recycling possible.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780813546940
• ISBN-10: 081354694X
• Artikelnr.: 26526140

Autorenporträt

Carl A. Zimring

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Rags and old iron
2 New American enterprises
3 Nuisance or necessity?
4 All us cats must surely do our bit
5 Size matters
6 It's not easy being green
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index