Garbage in, Garbage Out (Paperback)

Vivian E. Thomson

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2009

0813928257 / 9780813928258

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Paperback. 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. 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. This book examines the garbage issue from a number of perspectives - including considering the links between environmental justice and trash management. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Titolo
Garbage in, Garbage Out (Paperback)
Autore
Vivian E. Thomson
Editore
University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville
Anno di pubblicazione
2009
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0813928257
ISBN 13
9780813928258

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