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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: Recycling Is Necessary and Effective -- 2: Recycling Is Unnecessary and Ineffective -- 3: Recycling Should Be Mandatory -- 4: Is Recycling Worth It? -- 5: Recycling Saves Resources -- 6: Recycling Wastes Resources -- 7: Nuclear Waste Should Be Recycled -- 8: Nuclear Waste Should Not Be Recycled -- 9: Trash Should Be Recycled into Energy -- 10: Trash Should Not Be Recycled into Energy -- 11: Electronics Recycling Does Not Pollute Third World Countries -- Appendix -- What You Should Know About Recycling -- What You Should Do About Recycling -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index -- Picture Credits -- Back Cover

Bold color photos and easy-to-read text introduce readers to recycling. Five informative chapters highlight why recycling is important and ways people work to reuse and recycle materials to help our environment. Zoom in even deeper with key stats and bolded glossary terms that make learning fun. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Zoom is a division of ABDO

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: The Benefits of Recycling Outweigh the Costs -- 2: The Costs of Recycling Outweigh the Benefits -- 3: Recycling Is Better for the Environment -- 4: Electronic Waste Is a Major Recycling Problem -- 5: Recyclers and Governments Are Tackling the E-Waste Problem -- 6: Curbside Recycling Increases When People Do Not Have to Sort Their Trash -- 7: Curbside Recycling Works Better When People Presort Their Trash -- 8: Curbside Recycling Increases in Pay-as-You-Throw Communities -- 9: Forced Recycling Programs Do Not Work -- 10: Bottle Bills Are a Great Incentive to Recycle -- 11: Bottle Bills Are a Poor Incentive to Recycle -- 12: Plastic Bags Are Better than Paper -- 13: Plastic Bags Are a Recycling Nightmare -- 14: Reducing and Reusing Is Better than Recycling -- Appendix -- What You Should Know About Recycling -- What You Should Do About Recycling -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index -- Picture Credits -- Back Cover

Participation of households in waste separation at source is essential for achieving high recycling rates and diversion from energy recovery and landfill. To engage inhabitants in recycling is therefore an important objective for the national as well as the local waste management. Source separation of waste, however, requires much effort from the individual. Recycling programs should be designed so that they facilitate and motivate people to actively participate in waste separation and recycling. Perceived barriers for recycling can discourage people to participate, and it has even been reported that recycling programs function as a barrier instead as a motivator for recycling. The aim of this study was to show the perception of the local waste management of inhabitants in Sweden and Bulgaria to reveal if the recycling programs were perceived as a barrier for recycling. As members in the European Union, Sweden and Bulgaria have similar waste objectives and legislation but different performance in the waste sector. A questionnaire in Swedish and Bulgarian language was submitted to university students, 111 from Sweden and 112 from Bulgaria. Frequencies and the Theory of Planned Behaviour were used as evaluation tools. The results showed that dissatisfaction with waste collection services could prevent people from participation in waste separation and recycling even if these people had positive attitude to and possessed knowledge on recycling. ; Participation of households in waste separation at source is essential for achieving high recycling rates and diversion from energy recovery and landfill. To engage inhabitants in recycling is therefore an important objective for the national as well as the local waste management. Source separation of waste, however, requires much effort from the individual. Recycling programs should be designed so that they facilitate and motivate people to actively participate in waste separation and recycling. Perceived barriers for recycling can discourage people to participate, and it has even been reported that recycling programs function as a barrier instead as a motivator for recycling. The aim of this study was to show the perception of the local waste management of inhabitants in Sweden and Bulgaria to reveal if the recycling programs were perceived as a barrier for recycling. As members in the European Union, Sweden and Bulgaria have similar waste objectives and legislation but different performance in the waste sector. A questionnaire in Swedish and Bulgarian language was submitted to university students, 111 from Sweden and 112 from Bulgaria. Frequencies and the Theory of Planned Behaviour were used as evaluation tools. The results showed that dissatisfaction with waste collection services could prevent people from participation in waste separation and recycling even if these people had positive attitude to and possessed knowledge on recycling.

"Beyond Recycling critically explores unasked questions around recycling and its prominent position in contemporary thinking about sustainability. It examines and challenges assumptions about why we appear to have so wholeheartedly committed to recycling as a cultural project. Recycling has become a commonplace notion and widespread practice. Yet its social, cultural and even environmental value has not been considered carefully enough. This book considers recycling as a contemporary cultural idea related to - but not wholly defined by - our response to material waste. It seeks to reclaim recycling from the environmentalists and waste management specialists, to explore the role it plays in wider contemporary discourse. As we become increasingly satiated, and in many cases sickened, by the excesses of modern consumerism, we are rethinking our relationship with the physical stuff that fills our lives. Dissatisfied with empty materialism, we seek new ways to reuse our material culture. Recycling, turning something considered to be waste into something with renewed value, is our collective response to the problem of consumption and waste; and it is ripe for examination and critique. Beyond Recycling is a fascinating read for conscious consumers and students in the creative arts, design, cultural studies, sustainability and environmental studies"--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- What is Garbage -- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle -- What Can Be Recycled -- Recycling Paper -- Recycling Plastic -- Recycling Glass -- Recycling Metal -- Recycling Textiles -- Recycling Green Waste -- What Else Can Be Reused or Recycled -- Glossary, Index -- Back Cover

Product generation and waste -- Landfills -- Combustion of solid waste -- Biodegradable waste -- Reduce -- Reuse -- Recycle -- Recycling paper -- Glass recycling -- Steel recycling -- Aluminum recycling -- E-waste -- Construction and demolition waste -- Reuse and recycle clothes -- Plastic recycling -- Waste reduction -- Animal waste.

Another Report number is EPA 530-SW-601, per NSCEP's publication title list. ; "An environmental protection publication in the solid waste management series (SW-601)"--Page 2 of cover. ; Publisher location came from U.S. EPA About EPA, Mailing addresses and phone numbers web page. ; "1977"--Page 2 of cover. ; Reprinted from Government and the nation's resources, chap. 8, report of the National Commission on Supplies and Shortages, Dec. 1976. ; Cover title. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Provides information on current legislation, recycling activities, grants and upcoming programs pertaining to solid waste issues in Illinois. ; Description based on: October 1989; title from caption. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This book provides transdisciplinary analyses of the automotive plastics production and recycling system, including prognoses, scenarios and solutions for corporate sustainability management. A book on plastics, not written by a plastics guy. But a sustainability guy. Plastics schizophrenia and the automotive abyss: The industry is facing a severe challenge. It is the inevitable and promising change towards a sustainable economy. However, the automotive industry is primarily concerned with the CO2 emissions from cars when driving, while the rise of lightweight plastics, electric drive and heavy batteries make the production and end-of-life phase ever more important. Therefore, the currently increasing use of non-sustainable virgin plastics in cars has to be tackled. The plastics and the automotive industry now have a chance, and this chance is the Recycling Renaissance. This book offers: • Holistic and transdisciplinary overview on sustainability and automotive plastics from all angles including economy, ecology, technology, and politics with a focus on Europe • Concise analyses, prognoses, tools and a roadmap with solutions for companies, developed together with international experts from industry and academia • Strong scientific basis and independent research including a Europe-wide survey, expert interviews, and workshops • More than 80 illustrations and 15 tables including a SCOT analysis • Executive summaries after each chapter for fast reading "The uniqueness of this book lies within the different point of view on this topic from a critical, outstanding scientist." - Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.mont. Pomberger, Montanuni Leoben