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This work covers new comparative territory, provides a rich source of information on waste legislation, and helps us understand the political reasons why our trash travels so far. --Journal of Southern History Garbage In-Garbage Out is an outstanding work that sheds much light on the current solid waste business model past and future.I highly recommend it to anyone in our industry, and to all who care how we dispose of waste and where. --Bruce J. Edmonds III, Environmental Research Solutions This topic is of immense importance. Garbage In, Garbage Out is original and is a substantial contribution to the field of environmental policy. Thomson demonstrates convincingly that the problem of solid waste management is far more complex and serious than most would conceive. --John Wargo, Yale University, author of Green Intelligence: Creating Environments that Protect Human Health Thomson's commitment to reduction in the amount of trash is welcome and important; it comes as a breath of fresh air within the policy literature on garbage transportation. Moreover, it digs beneath the surface of our trash transport problems in a normatively admirable manner. --Perspectives on Politics
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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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- VerlagUniversity of Virginia Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2009
- ISBN 10 0813928249
- ISBN 13 9780813928241
- EinbandTapa dura
- Anzahl der Seiten184
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Zustand: New. 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. Artikel-Nr. 898794001
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