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Garbage in, Garbage Out - Solving the Problems with Long-distance Trash Transport (Hardcover, New)
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Garbage in, Garbage Out - Solving the Problems with Long-distance Trash Transport (Hardcover, New)
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Your garbage is going places you'd never imagine. What used to be
sent to the local dump now may move hundreds of miles by truck and
barge to its final resting place. Virtually all forms of pollution
migrate, subjected to natural forces such as wind and water
currents. The movement of garbage, however, is under human control.
Its patterns of migration reveal much about power sharing among
state, local, and national institutions, about the Constitution's
protection of trash transport as a commercial activity, and about
competing notions of social fairness. In ""Garbage In, Garbage
Out"", Vivian Thomson looks at Virginia's status as the
second-largest importer of trash in the United States and uses it
as a touchstone for exploring the many controversies around trash
generation and disposal. Political conflicts over waste management
have been felt at all levels of government. Local governments who
want to manage their own trash have fought other local governments
hosting huge landfills that depend on trash generated hundreds of
miles away. State governments have tried to avoid becoming the
dumping grounds for cities hundreds of miles away. The
constitutional questions raised in these battles have kept
interstate trash transport on Congress' agenda since the early
1990s. Whether the resulting legislative proposals actually address
our most critical garbage-related problems, however, remains in
question. Thomson sheds much-needed light on these problems. Within
the context of increased interstate trash transport and the trend
toward privatization of waste management, she examines the garbage
issue from a number of perspectives - including considering the
links between environmental justice and trash management, offering
a critical evaluation of the theoretical and empirical relationship
between economic growth and environmental improvement, and
highlighting the ways in which waste management practices in the
United States differ from those in the European Union and Japan.
Thomson then provides specific, substantive recommendations for our
own policy makers. Everything eventually becomes trash. As we
explore the long, often surprising, routes our garbage takes, we
begin to understand that it is something more than a mere nuisance
that regularly 'disappears' from our curbside. Rather, trash
generation and management reflect patterns of consumption,
political choices over whether garbage is primarily pollution or
commerce, the social distribution of environmental risk, and how
our daily lives compare with those of our counterparts in other
industrialized nations.
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Imprint: |
University of Virginia Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2009 |
First published: |
September 2009 |
Authors: |
Vivian E. Thomson
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
184 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8139-2824-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
The environment >
Waste management >
General
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LSN: |
0-8139-2824-9 |
Barcode: |
9780813928241 |
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