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Recycling (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series),Used
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An overview of recycling as an activity and a process, following different materials through the waste stream.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 Jrgensen answers (drumroll, please): it depends. From a technical point of view, recycling is a series of processescollecting, sorting, processing, manufacturing. Recycling also has a cultural component; at its core, recycling is about transformation and value, turning material waste into something usefulplastic bags into patio furniture, plastic bottles into Tshirts. Jrgensen offers an accessible and engaging overview of recycling as an activity and as a process at the intersection of the material and the ideological.Jrgensen follows a series of materials as they move back and forth between producer and consumer, continually transforming in form and value, in a neverceasing journey toward becoming waste. 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; the many types of plastic and the difficulties of informed consumer choice; ewaste and technological obsolescence; and industrial waste. Finally, reasking the question posed by John Tierney in an infamous 1996 New York Times article, is recycling garbage? Jrgensen argues that recycling is necessaryas both symbolic action and physical activity that has a tangible effect on the real world.
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