Resisting Garbage : : The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities / / Lily Baum Pollans.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Pollans, Lily Baum,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 15 b&w photos

Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding practices of waste removal and recycling in American cities, one that is grounded in the close observation of case studies while being broadly applicable to many American cities today. Most current waste practices in the United States, Lily Baum Pollans argues, prioritize sanitation and efficiency while allowing limited post-consumer recycling as a way to quell consumers’ environmental anxiety. After setting out the contours of this “weak recycling waste regime,” Pollans zooms in on the very different waste management stories of Seattle and Boston over the last forty years. While Boston’s local politics resulted in a waste-export program with minimal recycling, Seattle created new frameworks for thinking about consumption, disposal, and the roles that local governments and ordinary people can play as partners in a project of resource stewardship. By exploring how these two approaches have played out at the national level, Resisting Garbage provides new avenues for evaluating municipal action and fostering practices that will create environmentally meaningful change.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Evolution of America’s Weak Recycling Waste Regime -- 2. Non-Planning for Garbage in Boston -- 3. Deconstructing Garbage: Radical Reframing in Seattle -- 4. Compliant and Defiant Wasteways: Boston and Seattle within the WRWR -- 5. Resisting Garbage -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index