Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-143) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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Title
Ethics of Waste : How We Relate to Rubbish.
International Standard Book Number
9780742530133
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Environmental responsibility.
Refuse and refuse disposal-- Moral and ethical aspects.