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Garbage and recycling

Mancini, Candice. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 0737750820 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780737750829 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0737750812 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780737750812 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 229 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
    print
  • Publisher: Detroit : Greenhaven Press, [2011]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Garbage issues throughout the world. The world's oceans are filling with plastic / Richard Grant -- In India and around the world, e-waste is disastrous / Dataquest -- Americans must be more responsible with e-waste / Chris Jozefowicz -- In Egypt, the Nile is being ruined by pollution / Cam McGrath -- In Serbia, garbage and recycling must be a focus outside of Belgrade, too / Biljana Pavlovic, Amela Bjarovic, Dragan Gmizic, et al. -- Bangladesh's capital is swimming in waste / Dhaka Courier -- In Mexico City, soon there will be no place to put trash / Diego Cevallos -- The controversial nature of garbage and recycling. In the United Kingdom and around the world, people debate the value of recycling / Leo Hickman -- In Canada, Calgary's curbside recycling sparks concerns about recycling / Kevin Libin -- In India and Japan, perspectives on garbage and recycling are different, but there is a common thread / Urvashi Butalia -- In China, citizens protest a garbage incinerator project / Wang Pan and Li Jianmin -- China's environmental mind-set / Gou Fu Mao -- In South Asia, many ships meet their toxic death / Jacob Baynham -- Conventional solutions to the garbage and recycling dilemma. In the United States and around the world, plastic bags must go / Katharine Mieszkowski -- In Australia, a small town bans bottled water / Warren McLaren -- In the United States and beyond, food service must address waste management / Andrew Shakman -- In Spain, garbage management is improved / Tito Drago -- In Canada, the package waste problem is slowly changing / Moira Welsh and Christopher Hume -- Alternative solutions to the garbage and recycling dilemma. American architect turns trash into homes / Laura Sevier -- In the Philippines, residents turn trash into useful products / Ana Puod -- In China and beyond, trash is turned into art / PRNewswire-Asia -- A British entrepreneur turns waste into fuel / Danny Fortson -- In Sweden, alcohol and human waste fuel cars / David Wiles -- In space, recycling faces new dilemmas / Jon Excell.
Subject: Refuse and refuse disposal
Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Environmental policy

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