Germany, garbage, and the green dot: Challenging the throwaway society
Abstract
For US policymakers and citizens who are grappling with the question of how to handle this country's mounting municipal garbage and commercial wastes, this report offers a revolutionary approach taken by Germany to promote both recycling and source reduction. The sweeping new German legislation is stimulating industry efforts to reduce packaging and product waste by requiring that the businesses producing packages and products be financially responsible for taking back their used materials and recycling, reusing or disposing of them. This report describes what Germans have done in solid waste policies, the difficulties they are confronting and the impact on wastes to date. It discusses the environmental problems that the US and other industrialized countries face, identifies practical solutions: programs and policies that work to conserve our valuable air, land, water and natural resources and enable us to live and do business less wastefully.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- INFORM, Inc., New York, NY (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6667353
- Report Number(s):
- PB-95-141313/XAB
CNN: EPA-R-817087-01-0
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY; WASTE MANAGEMENT; MUNICIPAL WASTES; MATERIALS RECOVERY; RECYCLING; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EUROPE; MANAGEMENT; PROCESSING; WASTE PROCESSING; WASTES; WESTERN EUROPE; 320604* - Energy Conservation, Consumption, & Utilization- Municipalities & Community Systems- Municipal Waste Management- (1980-)
Citation Formats
Fishbein, B K. Germany, garbage, and the green dot: Challenging the throwaway society. United States: N. p., 1994.
Web.
Fishbein, B K. Germany, garbage, and the green dot: Challenging the throwaway society. United States.
Fishbein, B K. 1994.
"Germany, garbage, and the green dot: Challenging the throwaway society". United States.
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abstractNote = {For US policymakers and citizens who are grappling with the question of how to handle this country's mounting municipal garbage and commercial wastes, this report offers a revolutionary approach taken by Germany to promote both recycling and source reduction. The sweeping new German legislation is stimulating industry efforts to reduce packaging and product waste by requiring that the businesses producing packages and products be financially responsible for taking back their used materials and recycling, reusing or disposing of them. This report describes what Germans have done in solid waste policies, the difficulties they are confronting and the impact on wastes to date. It discusses the environmental problems that the US and other industrialized countries face, identifies practical solutions: programs and policies that work to conserve our valuable air, land, water and natural resources and enable us to live and do business less wastefully.},
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year = {Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994},
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