Cash for your trash : scrap recycling in America /

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, Zimr...

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Главный автор: Zimring, Carl A., 1969-
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press ©2005.
Online-ссылка:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj417
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Итог: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.
Примечание:Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Carnegie Mellon.
Объем:1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : illustrations
Библиография:Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index.
ISBN:0813537916
9780813537917
9780813536866
0813536863