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Is waste (or trash) really so useless that, as William Faulkner once wrote, [r]ead everything trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. . . . If it is good, you ll find out. If it s not, throw it out the window ? (TE 2012) Interestingly, this critical view of waste (or trash) can be contrasted with an opposing observation by Isaac Bashevis Singer, who once famously said that the waste basket is the writer s best friend. (TE 2012a) Contrary to these opposing views (and other ones as will be discussed in the book), waste, in relation to both uselessness and usefulness is neither possible or impossible, nor desirable or undesirable to the extent that the respective ideologues on different sides would like us to believe. Of course, this challenge to the opposing views of waste does not imply that waste has no practical value, or that those interdisciplinary fields (related to waste) like epidemiology, global warming, waste management, low-carbon economics, ethical consumerism, resource recovery, freeganism, environmental justice, space debris, and so on are unimportant. Of course, neither of these extreme views is reasonable. Rather, this book offers an alternative, better

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Author

Peter Baofu, Author

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781443841900

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, Social Science, Engineering