The leading book on packaging and the environment-now expanded and updated This is a detailed examination and objective analysis of all aspects of environmental problems related to packaging: resource depletion, pollution, solid waste management, recycling, degradability, package design considerations, and legislation. The author is a leading authority on the subject. The presentation is well documented and non-partisan. This new edition is expanded and completely updated.
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This is one of the most comprehensive books . . . on the subject to date . . . very readable by both the professional as well as all concerned.
-Ralph H. Thomas Sr., Thomas Packaging Consultants, in Polymer News
-Ralph H. Thomas Sr., Thomas Packaging Consultants, in Polymer News
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Every day we hear more and more complaints about the damage that packaging, especially plastic packaging, is doing to our environment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bottle deposit legislation, commingled plastics, primary recycling, secondary recycling, obsolete scrap, degradable packaging, drop off programs, reusable packages, aluminum beverage cans, recycling research, sorbent injection, plastics recycling, municipal solid waste, degradable plastics, paperboard packaging, home scrap, recycling rate, virgin resin, industrial scrap, largest single use, solid waste stream, packaging industry, waste composting, base cup, beverage bottles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Waste Age, Recycling Times, Modern Plastics, Environmental Protection Agency, American Paper Institute, Chemical Engineering, New Jersey, Resource Recycling, Worldwatch Paper, Thompson Publishing Group, Worldwatch Institute, Rhode Island, Conservation Foundation, Bureau of Mines, Franklin Associates, Resource Conservation Consultants, Science of Composting, Future Business Opportunity, North America, West Germany, American Chemical Society, Biodegradable Materials, Business Week New!
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Every day we hear more and more complaints about the damage that packaging, especially plastic packaging, is doing to our environment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bottle deposit legislation, commingled plastics, primary recycling, secondary recycling, obsolete scrap, degradable packaging, drop off programs, reusable packages, aluminum beverage cans, recycling research, sorbent injection, plastics recycling, municipal solid waste, degradable plastics, paperboard packaging, home scrap, recycling rate, virgin resin, industrial scrap, largest single use, solid waste stream, packaging industry, waste composting, base cup, beverage bottles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Waste Age, Recycling Times, Modern Plastics, Environmental Protection Agency, American Paper Institute, Chemical Engineering, New Jersey, Resource Recycling, Worldwatch Paper, Thompson Publishing Group, Worldwatch Institute, Rhode Island, Conservation Foundation, Bureau of Mines, Franklin Associates, Resource Conservation Consultants, Science of Composting, Future Business Opportunity, North America, West Germany, American Chemical Society, Biodegradable Materials, Business Week New!
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- State of the World 2003 by The Worldwatch Institute on 5 pages
- Rhode Island (Portrait of America) by Kathleen Thompson on 4 pages
- Discarding the Throwaway Society (Worldwatch paper :) by John E. Young on page 67, page 132, and page 232
- Mining Urban Wastes: The Potential for Recycling (Worldwatch Paper 76) by Cynthia Pollock on page 143, page 151, and page 164
- South Carolina (Portrait of America) by Kathleen Thompson on page 219, and page 221
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- Peeking Through The Keyhole: The Evolution Of North American Homes by Avi Friedman in Back Matter
- Getting at the Source: Strategies For Reducing Municipal Solid Waste by World Wildlife Fund in Back Matter
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