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Resisting Garbage - The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities (Hardcover)
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Resisting Garbage - The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities (Hardcover)
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Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding
practices of waste removal and recycling in American cities, one
that is grounded in the close observation of case studies while
being broadly applicable to many American cities today. Most
current waste practices in the United States, Lily Baum Pollans
argues, prioritize sanitation and efficiency while allowing limited
post-consumer recycling as a way to quell consumers’
environmental anxiety. After setting out the contours of this
“weak recycling waste regime,” Pollans zooms in on the very
different waste management stories of Seattle and Boston over the
last forty years. While Boston’s local politics resulted in a
waste-export program with minimal recycling, Seattle created new
frameworks for thinking about consumption, disposal, and the roles
that local governments and ordinary people can play as partners in
a project of resource stewardship. By exploring how these two
approaches have played out at the national level, Resisting Garbage
provides new avenues for evaluating municipal action and fostering
practices that will create environmentally meaningful change.
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