"In recent years, food waste has risen to the top of the political and public agenda, yet until now there has been no scholarly analysis applied to the topic as a complement and counter-balance to campaigning and activist approaches. Using ethnographic material to explore global…
"In recent years, food waste has risen to the top of the political and public agenda, yet until now there has been no scholarly analysis applied to the topic as a complement and counter-balance to campaigning and activist approaches. Using ethnographic material to explore global…
"A history of the many and changing ideas of waste in Japan from the mid-1940s to the present"--
"First primer in the emerging field of discard studies. It explores the way that social, economic, and political systems maintain themselves by discarding certain people, places, and things"--.
Over the last fifty years, environmentalism has emerged as a clear counterforce to the environmental destruction caused by industrialization, colonialism, globalization. Activists and policymakers have fought hard to make the earth a better place to live. But has the environment…
No chemical process exists that produces only the product desired. Therefore, it is an important aim of the chemical industry to reduce the environmental effects of waste products. Claus Christ looks at the methods used to achieve this.
