Recycling

Name: Recycling
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ISBN: 9780262537827

Finn Arne Jørgensen (Professor, University of Stavanger)

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MIT Press
12 November 2019

Pollution & threats to the environment

Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

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 J rgensen answers (drumroll, please)- it depends. From a technical point of view, recycling is a series of processes-collecting, sorting, processing, manufacturing. Recycling also has a cultural component; at its core, recycling is about transformation and value, turning material waste into something useful-plastic bags into patio furniture, plastic bottles into T-shirts. J rgensen offers an accessible and engaging overview of recycling as an activity and as a process at the intersection of the material and the ideological. J rgensen follows a series of materials as they move back and forth between producer and consumer, continually transforming in form and value, in a never-ceasing 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 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; e-waste and technological obsolescence; and industrial waste. Finally, re-asking the question posed by John Tierney in an infamous 1996 New York Times article, ""is recycling garbage?"" J rgensen argues that recycling is necessary-as both symbolic action and physical activity that has a tangible effect on the real world.

By: Finn Arne Jørgensen (Professor University of Stavanger)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 16mm
ISBN: 9780262537827
ISBN 10: 0262537826
Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 12 November 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Finn Arne J rgensen is Professor of Environmental History at the University of Stavanger, Norway.