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Beth Porter - Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine

Sorting Out the Recycling System

Av Beth Porter

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Beskrivning
Ecosystems require balance to survive, and when that balance is compromised, disaster can befall the whole system. To keep a balance in our global ecosystem, we need to use resources efficiently, equitably, and sustainably. In both nature and economics, we observe that when a healthy distribution of resources is achieved, systems can not only function but flourish.The United States recycles roughly 34% of its waste and has been stuck at this level for decades. Recycling brings a balance to our system by managing resources in a loop. When done well, it benefits communities and the environment. Individuals are a key part of connecting this loop because we provide a supply of materials and a demand for new recycled products. But many of us don’t know what happens after those items leave our homes. We’re confused by inconsistent rules of what we can and can’t recycle. Our confusion has huge consequences and is a reason why our recycling is stuck. Throughout Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine, Beth Porter provides answers to clear up that confusion, and shares great resources about recycling, explaining the complexity, guiding individual action, and contextualizing its history. This book reveals how we arrived at this state of dysfunction, and what steps we need to employ to be an active participant in strengthening our recycling system. Nature knows how to recycle itself, decomposing waste back into the soil to continue the circle of growth. We should follow its lead.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-11-15
  • Mått: 158 x 237 x 21 mm
  • Vikt: 445 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 232
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • ISBN: 9781538105399
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Beth Porter is Green America’s Climate & Recycling Director. Beth creates content and resources to help people curb their waste and improve recycling habits. She lives and works in Washington, D.C. Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine is her first book.

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Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine offers the reader a concrete social and scientific framework for exploring the recycling system for materials that are integral to solutions to the larger issues of environmental sustainability and economic development in our consumer-based society. Failing to recognize the importance of mitigating consumption leaves us awash in oceans of garbage of our own making. Porter, a first-time author and nonprofit climate program director, offers a responsible point of view in nine easy pieces ranging from recycling’s patriotic beginnings in WW II to the psychology of consumption and its economic drivers emerging today from the remnants of the throw-away society that was its legacy. Between the covers of this important and timely book, readers will find useful and often interesting tips, as well as chapter notes, citations, and a working index. It may be about trash, but trash it is not: it is rather a vitally useful work that reminds readers of the need for effective waste management and recycling practices in this age of global climate change. Recommended.

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