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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Auteur principal: Zimring, Carl A., 1969-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press ©2005.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj417
Table des matières:
  • Rags and old iron
  • New American enterprises
  • Nuisance or necessity?
  • All us cats must surely do our bit
  • Size matters
  • It's not easy being green.