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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

"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.