UID:
almahu_9949386763602882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781003024088
,
1003024084
,
9781000381832
,
1000381838
,
9781000381856
,
1000381854
Content:
"Beyond Recycling critically explores unasked questions around recycling and its prominent position in contemporary thinking about sustainability. It examines and challenges assumptions about why we appear to have so wholeheartedly committed to recycling as a cultural project. Recycling has become a commonplace notion and widespread practice. Yet its social, cultural and even environmental value has not been considered carefully enough. This book considers recycling as a contemporary cultural idea related to - but not wholly defined by - our response to material waste. It seeks to reclaim recycling from the environmentalists and waste management specialists, to explore the role it plays in wider contemporary discourse. As we become increasingly satiated, and in many cases sickened, by the excesses of modern consumerism, we are rethinking our relationship with the physical stuff that fills our lives. Dissatisfied with empty materialism, we seek new ways to reuse our material culture. Recycling, turning something considered to be waste into something with renewed value, is our collective response to the problem of consumption and waste; and it is ripe for examination and critique. Beyond Recycling is a fascinating read for conscious consumers and students in the creative arts, design, cultural studies, sustainability and environmental studies"--
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- References -- 1 Language -- A short history of recycling -- Recycling and reuse -- Upcycling and downcycling -- Non-material recycling -- Recycling morals -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Things -- Cultural products -- One-offs -- Volume by-hand (re)production -- Material substitution -- Branding recycled -- Products for recycling -- Recycling aesthetics -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Symbols -- Ouroboros: a pre-recycling symbol -- Mobius loop: three chasing arrows -- Variants and deviants -- Cultural use -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Sustainability -- The benefits of recycling -- Benefit #1 Recycling diverts waste from landfill -- Benefit #2 Recycling conserves resources -- Benefit #3 Recycling reduces energy use -- The 3Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle -- The limits of reuse -- The unsustainability of recycling -- Designing-out wasteful behaviours -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Futures -- Reactive recycling -- Strategic recycling: Cradle-to-Cradle -- Novelty or necessity -- Global recycling -- Local recycling -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Micklethwaite, Paul. Beyond recycling Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9780367903879
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003024088
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