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Waste Management: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) by Jacqueline Vaughn is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>This urgent volume provides an up-to-date overview of waste management, outlining ways that individuals, groups, and governments can reduce waste through integrated strategies.</p> <p>From household trash to radioactive material, <i>Waste Management</i>covers the many types of waste humans produce, then looks at the latest scientific breakthroughs and policy initiatives focusing on the waste management problem. It provides a historical context for understanding the current garbage crisis and examines a number of important events and current issues, including the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, managing the debris from Hurricane Katrina and the World Trade Center site, shipbreaking and human rights violations in Asia, the freecycling movement, and San Francisco's ban on plastic grocery bags. The book also looks at the problem globally, from the most developed country to cultures that rely on trash picking and scavenging.</p>

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Author

Jacqueline Vaughn

Publisher

ABC-CLIO, LLC

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781598841510

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Political Science