Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-143) and index.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1 An Overflowing Bin; 2 Plastic Bags; 3 Shit; 4 A Dumped Car; 5 Empty Bottles; 6 Worms; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.
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Gay Hawkins explores the ethical significance of waste in everyday life, from the broadest conceptions of waste and loss to how the environmental movement has affected the ways we think about garbage. Do we feel virtuous for reusing plastic bags and disdain those who don't? At what point does personal waste become public responsibility? How does this 'public conscience' affect policy? Placing these ideas into historical, social, and cultural perspective, this thoughtful book seeks ways to change ecologically destructive practices without recourse to guilt, moralism, or despair.
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Ethics of Waste : How We Relate to Rubbish.
9780742530133
Environmental responsibility.
Refuse and refuse disposal-- Moral and ethical aspects.