Title The business of waste : Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the present / Raymond G. Stokes, University of Glasgow, Roman Koster, Bundeswehr University, Munich, Stephen C. Sambrook, University of Glasgow

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages) : illustrations Contents Establishing (and reestablishing) an industry : waste services in the United Kingdom and Germany from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s -- Rationalization measures -- Salvage and the industry -- The waste flood -- Politicizing household waste : from public helath nuisance to environmental pollutant -- Coping with the crisis -- Framing waste : measurement, regulation, and legislation in the 1980s -- The waste management indsutry since 1990 -- summary, conclusions, and reflectsions Summary "The advent of consumer societies in the United Kingdom and West Germany after 1945 led to the mass "production" of garbage. This book compares the social, cultural, and economic fallout of the growing volume and changing composition of waste in the two countries from 1945 to the present through sustained attention to changes in the business of handling household waste. Though the UK and Germany are similar in population density, degrees of urbanization, and standardization, the two countries took profoundly different paths from low-waste to throwaway societies, and more recently, toward the goal of "zero-waste." The authors explore evolving balances between public and private provision in waste services; the transformation of public cleansing into waste management; the role of government legislation and regulation; emerging conceptualizations of recycling and resource recovery; and the gradual shift of the industry's regulatory and business context from local to national and then to international."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-320) and index Notes Print version record Subject Refuse and refuse disposal -- Great Britain -- History Refuse and refuse disposal -- Germany -- History Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Great Britain -- History Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Germany -- History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Recycling (Waste, etc.) Refuse and refuse disposal Germany Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Köster, Roman, 1975- Sambrook, Stephen C ISBN 9781107294035 1107294037 9781306071819 130607181X 9781139225663 1139225669

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