Garbage in the Garden State / / Jordan P. Howell.
Garbage in the Garden State is the only book to examine the history of waste management in New Jersey. The state has played a pioneering role in the overall trajectory of waste management in the US. Howell's book is unique in the way that it places the contemporary challenges of waste managemen...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | CERES: Rutgers Studies in History
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Origins of Waste Management Planning in New Jersey -- 3 Planning, Siting, Operating, and Financing Landfills -- 4 Recycle or Incinerate? -- 5 Limits to the System -- 6 Conclusions and Looking Forward -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
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Summary: | Garbage in the Garden State is the only book to examine the history of waste management in New Jersey. The state has played a pioneering role in the overall trajectory of waste management in the US. Howell's book is unique in the way that it places the contemporary challenges of waste management into their proper historical context – for instance, why does the system for recycling seem to work so poorly? Why do we have so many landfills in New Jersey, but also simultaneously not enough landfills or incinerators? Howell acknowledges that New Jersey is sometimes imagined, particularly by non-New Jerseyans, as a giant garbage dump for New York and Philadelphia. But every place has had to struggle with the challenges of waste management. New Jersey's trash history is in fact more interesting and more important than most. New Jersey’s waste history includes intensive planning, deep-seated political conflict, organized crime, and literally every level of state and federal judiciary. It is a colorful history, to say the least, and one that includes a number of firsts with regard to recycling, comprehensive planning, and the challenging economics of trash. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781978833432 9783111319292 9783111318912 9783111319124 9783111318165 9783110791303 |
DOI: | 10.36019/9781978833432 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jordan P. Howell. |