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Beyond Recycling (Hardcover)
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Beyond Recycling (Hardcover)
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Beyond Recycling critically explores unasked questions around
recycling and its prominent position in contemporary thinking about
sustainability. It examines and challenges assumptions about why we
appear to have so wholeheartedly committed to recycling as a
cultural project. Recycling has become a commonplace notion and
widespread practice. Yet its social, cultural and even
environmental value has not been considered carefully enough. This
book considers recycling as a contemporary cultural idea related to
- but not wholly defined by - our response to material waste. It
seeks to reclaim recycling from the environmentalists and waste
management specialists, to explore the role it plays in wider
contemporary discourse. As we become increasingly satiated, and in
many cases sickened, by the excesses of modern consumerism, we are
rethinking our relationship with the physical stuff that fills our
lives. Dissatisfied with empty materialism, we seek new ways to
reuse our material culture. Recycling, turning something considered
to be waste into something with renewed value, is our primary
collective response to the problems arising from consumption; and
it is ripe for critical examination. Beyond Recycling is a
fascinating read for conscious consumers and students in the
creative arts, design, cultural studies, sustainability and
environmental studies.
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