| Recycling Contributor(s): Sellon-Wright, Keith (Read by), Jorgensen, Finn Arne (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798200583195 Publisher: Gildan Media Corporation OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Self-help | Green Lifestyle |
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| Publisher Description: Is there a point to recycling? Is recycling even good for the environment? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Finn Arne J rgensen answers: it depends. From a technical point of view, recycling is a series of processes--collecting, sorting, processing, manufacturing. Recycling also has a cultural component; at its core, recycling is about transformation and value, turning material waste into something useful--plastic bags into patio furniture, plastic bottles into T-shirts. J rgensen offers an accessible and engaging overview of recycling as an activity and as a process at the intersection of the material and the ideological. J rgensen follows a series of materials as they move back and forth between producer and consumer. He considers organic waste and cultural contamination; the history of recyclable writing surfaces from papyrus to newsprint; discarded clothing as it moves from the the Global North to the Global South; the shifting fate of glass bottles; the efficiency of aluminum recycling; e-waste and technological obsolescence; and industrial waste. Finally, re-asking the question posed by John Tierney in an infamous 1996 New York Times article, is recycling garbage? J rgensen argues that recycling is necessary--as both symbolic action and physical activity that has a tangible effect on the real world. |