Social Research articles from March 1998

Social Research archives from March 1998

The waste remains and kills.(Garbage)
March 22, 1998... WASTE: garbage, trash, refuse, dust (in British usage), junk, excrement--except for the last (and shit, while most limited in literal use, is most widely used figuratively to characterize variously undesirable entities), in different...

Garbage out, garbage in.(Garbage)
March 22, 1998... WITH respect to the mounting problem of garbage, we appear to be in a difficult and unclear transitional era. Old technologies are being or are perhaps about to be superseded and behavior seems on the way to changing. Analysis of the problems...

Waste, industrial ecology, and sustainability.(Garbage)
March 22, 1998... CONNOTATIONS of the word waste are indeed broad: authors of this issue include historians, policy-makers, sociologists, and a poet. This inspires the thought that beyond the purview of the local sanitation worker lies waste as transcendent...

Waste and fairness. (originally presented at The World Congress on Waste Management, Vienna, Austria, October 1995)(Garbage)
March 22, 1998... LAWRENCE SUMMERS'S famous (or perhaps I should say infamous) World Bank memorandum (1992)--urging that rich countries export their hazardous wastes to poor countries--is based on impeccable economic reasoning, but it has been met with almost...

Fat of the land: New York's waste.(Garbage)
March 22, 1998... ON JUNE 9, 1996, New York Governor George E. Pataki signed into law a measure that effectively precludes the disposal of solid waste within the limits of the country's largest city after December 31, 2001. As enthusiasm-inducing as the news...

No time to waste: an exploration of time use, attitudes toward time, and the generation of municipal solid waste.(Garbage)
March 22, 1998... DISPUTES over how to manage trash are acrimonious because they involve more than arguments over landfill capacity. They also evoke the public's ambivalence about consumption in modern life. In doing so, they raise political and economic...

In defense of recycling.(Garbage)
March 22, 1998... Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America: a waste of time and money, a waste of human and natural resources.... [T]here's no reason to make recycling a legal or moral imperative. John Tierney (1996b,...