Trash Across the Border
Author : Kelly Katzmann
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Refuse and refuse disposal
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Author : Kelly Katzmann
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Refuse and refuse disposal
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Author : Lizbeth G. Ellis
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Hazardous wastes
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Joshua Reno
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520288947
Though we are the most wasteful people in the history of the world, very few of us know what becomes of our waste. In Waste Away, Joshua O. Reno reveals how North Americans have been shaped by their preferred means of disposal: sanitary landfill. Based on the author’s fieldwork as a common laborer at a large, transnational landfill on the outskirts of Detroit, the book argues that waste management helps our possessions and dwellings to last by removing the transient materials they shed and sending them elsewhere. Ethnography conducted with waste workers shows how they conceal and contain other people’s wastes, all while negotiating the filth of their occupation, holding on to middle-class aspirations, and occasionally scavenging worthwhile stuff from the trash. Waste Away also traces the circumstances that led one community to host two landfills and made Michigan a leading importer of foreign waste. Focusing on local activists opposed to the transnational waste trade with Canada, the book’s ethnography analyzes their attempts to politicize the removal of waste out of sight that many take for granted. Documenting these different ways of relating to the management of North American rubbish, Waste Away demonstrates how the landfills we create remake us in turn, often behind our backs and beneath our notice.
Author : Jay R. Topham
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Offshore assembly industry
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This thesis focuses on the toxic waste and environmental degradation along the U.S. and Mexico border, caused by the industrial factories, or maquiladoras. Along with defining the causes, the paper also poses what can be done to reverse the harm.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Hazardous wastes
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
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Author : Kate O'Neill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2019-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0745687431
Waste is one of the planet’s last great resource frontiers. From furniture made from up-cycled wood to gold extracted from computer circuit boards, artisans and multinational corporations alike are finding ways to profit from waste while diverting materials from overcrowded landfills. Yet beyond these benefits, this “new” resource still poses serious risks to human health and the environment. In this unique book, Kate O’Neill traces the emergence of the global political economy of wastes over the past two decades. She explains how the emergence of waste governance initiatives and mechanisms can help us deal with both the risks and the opportunities associated with the hundreds of millions – possibly billions – of tons of waste we generate each year. Drawing on a range of fascinating case studies to develop her arguments, including China’s role as the primary recipient of recyclable plastics and scrap paper from the Western world, “Zero-Waste” initiatives, the emergence of transnational waste-pickers’ alliances, and alternatives for managing growing volumes of electronic and food wastes, O’Neill shows how waste can be a risk, a resource, and even a livelihood, with implications for governance at local, national, and global levels.
Author : Martin Medina
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780759109414
A fascinating analysis of the world's scavengers as performing an important economic role in the production and consumption of food.