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Szaky, Tom.
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Refuse and refuse disposal
Waste minimization
Recycling (Waste, etc.)
NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
HOUSE & HOME -- Sustainable Living.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Waste Management.
Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Refuse and refuse disposal
Waste minimization
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Outsmart waste : the...
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Outsmart
waste
: the modern idea of garbage and how to think our way out of it /
by
Szaky, Tom.
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., [2014]
Subjects
Refuse and refuse disposal
Waste
minimization
Recycling (
Waste
, etc.)
NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
HOUSE & HOME -- Sustainable Living.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental --
Waste
Management.
Recycling (
Waste
, etc.)
Refuse and refuse disposal
Waste
minimization
Series:
A BK currents series
Description:
ix, 156 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Contents:
"Foreword by Deepak Chopra"--Cover.
The unique nature of garbage -- Where the modern idea of garbage originated -- The role of the individual purchase -- Our primary global solution to
waste
: bury it -- The energy inherent in our
waste
-- The hierarchy of
waste
-- The art of upcycling -- The science of recycling -- The critical element of separation -- The economics of outsmarting
waste
--
Waste
is over (if you want it).
"Garbage doesn't exist in nature--the output of one organism is the useful input of another. So why does garbage exist in the human system? Why did it only become a problem the past century? And most importantly, how can we eliminate it--outsmart the very idea of garbage? Eco-entrepreneur Tom Szaky says that to outsmart
waste
first we have to understand it, then change how we create it, and finally rethink what we do with it. He traces the roots of our current garbage crisis to 20th century technological advances that resulted in historic changes in consuming habits--both the amount of garbage created and its longevity increased dramatically. Szaky argues we can turn this around by changing what we buy, when we buy, why we buy, and what we do with what we've bought. And through innovative recycling and creative "upcycling" (creating new products from discarded objects) we can stop seeing garbage as useless
waste
and start seeing it as useful waste--a tremendous volume of resources that are simply misunderstood. After reading this mind-expanding book you will never think of garbage the same way again"--
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