Making a Green Machine The Infrastructure of Beverage Container Recycling

• Main Author: Finn Arne Jorgensen, Jorgensen
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: United States Rutgers University Press 2011
• Edition: 1
• Series: Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment
• Subjects: Beverage containers; Beverage containers > Recycling > Scandinavia; Beverage containers > Recycling > United States; Environmental Conservation & Protection; Environmental Science; historia; Historieämnen; Historisk-filosofiska ämnen; History; History and philosophy subjects; History of technology; History of technology and industry; History subjects; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; NATURE; Recycling; Scandinavia; Technology; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING; Technology & Engineering / General; Technology (Applied sciences); Technology and culture; Teknik och kultur; Teknik- och industrihistoria; Teknikhistoria; United States; United States; Scandinavia

Consider an empty bottle or can, one of the hundreds of billions of beverage containers that are discarded worldwide every year. Empty containers have been at the center of intense political controversies, technological innovation processes, and the modern environmental movement. Making a Green Mach...