Cash for your trash : scrap recycling in America
In Cash for Your Trash, Carl A. Zimring provides a fascinating history of scrap recycling, from colonial times to the present. Integrating findings from archival, industrial, and demographic records, and moving beyond the environmental developments that have shaped modern recycling enterprises, Zimring offers a unique cultural and economic portrait of the private businesses that made large-scale recycling possible
eBook, English, ©2005
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., ©2005
History
1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : illustrations
9780813537917, 9780813536866, 0813537916, 0813536863
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Rags and old iron
New American enterprises
Nuisance or necessity?
All us cats must surely do our bit
Size matters
It's not easy being green
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Carnegie Mellon