Business of Waste. Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the present day
Details:
- Author(s) Stokes, Ray, Roman Koster & Stephen C Sambrook
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2013
- Pages 331pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
Topics:
- Name Comparative international studies
- Name Environmental issues
- Name Legislation & regulation exc h&s & competition policy
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
- Name Government & business & industry policy
Countries:
- Germany
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Compares the social, cultural and economic fallout from the growing volume and changing composition of waste from 1945 to the present through changes in the business of handling household waste. Compares UK and Germany which took profoundly different paths from low-waste to throwaway societies, and, more recently, towards the goal of 'zero-waste'. Explores evolving balance between public and private provision in waste services; the transformation of public cleansing into waste management; the role of government legislation and regulation; emerging conceptualisations 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. In three parts: 1] Cleansing services, 1945 to the 1960s. From societies of want to societies of plenty'; 2] 'Grappling with the crisis from the 1960s to 1980'; 3] 'Reconceputalizing waste and conceptualizing waste management. From 1980 to the present'