Cash For Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America

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A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S i i Cash for Your Trash ii A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S iii R U T G E R S U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London Cash for Your Trash Scrap Recycling in America CARL A. ZIMRING iv A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zimring, Carl A., 1969– Cash for your trash : scrap recycling in America / Carl A. Zimring. p. cm. Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctorial)—Carnegie Mellon. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978–0–8135–3686–6 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Recycling industry—United States—History. I. Title. HD9975.U52Z56 2005 363.72'82'0973—dc22 2005002576 British Cataloguing-in-Publication information is available from the British Library. Copyright 2005 by Carl A. Zimring All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854–8099. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Manufactured in the United States of America A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S v For Maury vi A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S ...