Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America

by Carl A . Zimring (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $28.13

  Offers a history of scrap recycling, since the colonial times. Integrating findings from archival, industrial, and demographic records, and moving beyond the environmental developments that have shaped modern recycling enterprises, this work offers a cultural and economic portrait of the private businesses that made large-scale recycling possible.