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...
| Tác giả chính: | |
|---|---|
| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
| Được phát hành: |
New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press
©2005.
|
| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj417 |
| Tóm tắt: | 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. |
|---|---|
| Mô tả sách: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Carnegie Mellon. |
| Mô tả vật lý: | 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : illustrations |
| Thư mục: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index. |
| số ISBN: | 0813537916 9780813537917 9780813536866 0813536863 |