The Business of Waste : Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the Present

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Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Cleansing Services, 1945 to the 1960s; 1 Establishing (and Reestablishing) an Industry; Introduction; Organizing Waste Services: From the Late Nineteenth Century to 1945; Great Britain's Public Cleansing System on the Eve of the Second World War; Germany's Public Cleansing System on the Eve of the Second World War; The Impact of the War; Resuming Service in the Immediate Postwar Period; Resuming Public Cleansing Service in Postwar Britain; Resuming Public Cleansing Service in Postwar (Western) Germany

Conclusion2 Rationalization Measures; Introduction; The Organizational Framework for Public Cleansing in the 1950s and Early 1960s; Containing Waste: The Evolution of the Garbage Can; Britain's Household Waste Container: Continuity of Practice; Germany's Household Waste Container: The Emergent Artifact; Accounting for Different Approaches to Containing Garbage; Mechanization and Automation; Thinking About Disposal: Landfill Limits and Incineration; Landfill and Its Limits; Incineration; Conclusion; 3 Salvage and the Industry; Introduction; Ownership of Household Waste and Its Implications

Shaping Commercial Value in Salvage MarketsSalvage Markets from 1945 to the Late 1960s; Salvage Markets in the Shadow of the War; Municipal Authorities and Commercial Salvage Markets; Conclusion: The Role of Salvage in Postwar Public Cleansing Systems; Part II Grappling with Crisis; 4 The Waste Flood; Introduction; Opening the Floodgates: Changing Patterns of Consumer Behavior; More Things for More People; Changing Patterns of Distribution, Retailing, and Consumer Behavior; Materiality, the Consumer, and the Changing Waste Stream; The Dimensions of the Problem; Conclusions

5 Politicizing Household WasteIntroduction; Waste and the "New Environmentalism"; The "Scientification" of Public Cleansing; The Government Steps In; Conclusion; 6 Coping with the Crisis; Introduction; Reorganizing for the Delivery of Waste Management Services; From Salvage to Recycling; Conclusion; Part III Reconceptualizing Waste and Conceptualizing Waste Management; 7 Framing Waste; Introduction; Society's Unremitting Waste Stream: Slowing Growth?; Dimensions of the Crisis; Reconceptualizing Waste at the National Level; The Changing Structure of the Industry; Conclusions

8 The Waste Management Industry Since 1990Introduction; From Recycling to Resource Recovery: The Case of Germany; Reorganizing Municipal Waste Handling in Germany in the Wake of Reunification; Recycling on the Advance; The Long Farewell to Landfilling in Germany; Struggling to Catch Up: Britain from 1990 to the Present; Conclusions; Summary, Conclusions, and Reflections; Bibliography; Index

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