<p>A comprehensive analysis of the solid waste problem and the major alternatives for a solution to the crisis.
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<p>A comprehensive analysis of the solid waste problem and the major alternatives for a solution to the crisis.
Library Journal
Do we want to take our throwaway society from landfilling to ``moonfilling'' via the ``consumerism blitz'' and the ``end-of-the-pipe'' approach, or do we want to provide political and economic support to reasoned waste alternatives--reduction, reuse, recycling? This book is a contemporary history and sociology of solid waste from the turn of the century to the present day and was adapted from an award-winning report by UCLA graduate students. It provides a more substantive analysis of waste management than the recent excellent critique of mass incineration, Rush To Burn: Solving America's Garbage Crisis ( LJ 7/89). To stimulate public debate on this important topic, libraries need both.--Diane M. Brown, Univ. of California Lib., Berkeley
Do we want to take our throwaway society from landfilling to ``moonfilling'' via the ``consumerism blitz'' and the ``end-of-the-pipe'' approach, or do we want to provide political and economic support to reasoned waste alternatives--reduction, reuse, recycling? This book is a contemporary history and sociology of solid waste from the turn of the century to the present day and was adapted from an award-winning report by UCLA graduate students. It provides a more substantive analysis of waste management than the recent excellent critique of mass incineration, Rush To Burn: Solving America's Garbage Crisis ( LJ 7/89). To stimulate public debate on this important topic, libraries need both.--Diane M. Brown, Univ. of California Lib., Berkeley
