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Cash For Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America [Hardcover]

Carl Zimring (Author)

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September 6, 2005
In Cash for Your Trash, Carl A. Zimring provides a fascinating history of scrap recycling, from colonial times to the present. Integrating findings from archival, industrial, and demographic records, and moving beyond the environmental developments that have shaped modern recycling enterprises, Zimring offers a unique cultural and economic portrait of the private businesses that made large-scale recycling possible.

 


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Zimring goes beyond the limited historical literature on municipal solid wastes. Cash for Your Trash gives us a sweeping account of industrial recycling long before residential recycling became popular. It is a fine contribution to urban and environmental history.
(Martin V. Melosi author of Garbage in the Cities )

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Carl A. Zimring is a visiting assistant professor of history at Oberlin College. He received his Ph.D. in 2002 from Carnegie Mellon University.

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scrap firms, ferrous scrap industry, waste material dealers, scrap trade, scrap trading, postconsumer materials, original recyclers, scrap processors, scrap dealing, junk dealing, scrap dealers, scrap recycling industries, scrap men, scrap collecting, waste trades, rag dealers, material reuse, scrap market, scrap processing, purchased scrap, scrap business, automobile graveyards, environmental inequalities, large brokers, scrap sales
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United States, World War, New York City, Luria Brothers, Civil War, New Jersey, Bethlehem Steel, African Americans, Francis Bannerman, Highway Beautification Act, Sigmund Dringer, Census of Business, Los Angeles, Benjamin Schwartz, Iron Age, United Kingdom, Alex Luria, East Coast, Ford Motor Company, Hirsch Luria, Lady Bird, Silent Spring, Federal Trade Commission, Henry Ford, Leon Henderson
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