Garbage in, Garbage Out Solving the Problems with Long-Distance Trash Transport

Name: Garbage in, Garbage Out Solving the Problems with Long-Distance Trash Transport
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ISBN: 9780813928258

ISBN-10: 0813928257

ISBN-13: 9780813928258

Edition: 2009

Authors: Vivian E. Thomson

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Your garbage is going places you'd never imagine. What used to be sent to the local dump now may move hundreds of miles by truck and barge to its final resting place. Virtually all forms of pollution migrate, subjected to natural forces such as wind and water currents. The movement of garbage, however, is under human control. Its patterns of migration reveal much about power sharing among state, local, and national institutions, about the Constitution's protection of trash transport as a commercial activity, and about competing notions of social fairness. In Garbage In, Garbage Out, Vivian Thomson looks at Virginia's status as the second-largest importer of trash in the United States and…

Book details

List price: $23.50
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 9/14/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English