Cash For Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America

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I N D E X 205 205 Index Abbey, John, 29 Ablon, Ralph E., 113 Addams, Jane, 42, 68 aesthetics, 69, 75, 79, 124–128, 132, 139, 140, 147, 150, 151, 164, 166, 168, 169. See also nuisance African Americans, 44, 48, 53, 76, 85, 160, 192n2 AISI. See American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) Akron, Ohio, 27 Alabama, 30 Albon, Carl S., 102, 103 Alexander, J. P., 63–64 Allegheny-Ludlum, 96 Allen, David T., 8 Alter, Joseph, 84 aluminum/aluminum dealers, 92, 117, 145, 158 American Automobile Association, 107 American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), 70–71, 74, 90 American Iron and Steel Association , 31 American Junk Dealers, Inc., 86 American Public Health Association, 67 Amis, William, 22 A. M. Wood and Co., Inc., 123 Apex Steel and Supply Company, 123 appliances, 60, 84, 103, 108, 140, 144, 148–149 Army Medical Corps, 67 Army Service Forces, 97 artisans, 14, 35 asbestos, 152, 158, 160, 192n68 Asian Americans, 53 auctions, 28, 29, 31, 35, 66, 108 Audubon Society, 146 Australia, 25 automobile batteries, 51, 116, 135, 145, 153, 158 automobiles: complex materials in, 144, 146; and consumption, 105, 107; fragmentation of, 102, 120; graveyards for, 60, 104, 107, 124, 139, 140; hazardous wastes in, 148, 152, 153; and planned obsolescence , 60; and postwar economic growth, 103; scrap from, 84, 102, 105, 106, 107–108, 116, 140; and throwaway society, 129; in World War II, 93 auto parts dealers, 116 baler, 56, 84, 115, 116, 117, 118, 120 baling press, 114, 115, 116 206 I N D E X Bannerman, Francis II, 13, 29, 37 Bannerman, Francis III, 12, 13, 14, 29 Basic-Oxygen Steelmaking Process (BOSP), 6, 108–109, 122, 186n14 Battelle Corporation, 150, 155, 158 Battelle Institute, 109, 139 Behmanesh, Nasrin, 8 Bell, Thomas, Out of This Furnace, 44 Berkeley Ecology Center, 134 Berman, Fred, 154 Bernheim, Louis, 30–31, 48 Bessemer process, 24, 31, 33, 43 Bethlehem Steel, 72, 73, 78, 99, 100, 112, 120, 123 beverage containers, 135, 139, 146 BFI, 156 Bible, 13 Biel, Herbert J., 113 billboards, 127, 128 Birmingham, Ala., 92 blacksmiths, 2, 13, 14, 16, 35 blast furnace, 88 Bloomberg, Michael, 131 Boehm, Max, 37 Boston, 20, 22, 34 bottles. See beverage containers Bowen, E. S., 62 Bowman, Amos, 113 Bowman, Henry, 61–62 brass, 14, 15, 92, 145 Brenner, Morris, 56 Briggs, Martin, 68, 78 brokers. See scrap brokers bronze, 14 Brooklyn, N.Y., 29 Brooklyn Dodgers, 81 BSOP. See Basic-Oxygen Steelmaking Process (BOSP) Buffalo, N.Y., 18, 25–26 Bureau of Economic Warfare, 97 Bureau of Radiological Health, 148 Bureau of Solid Waste Management, 148 Bureau of Water Hygiene, 148 Cabot, Paul C., 93 Cadillac, Mich., 44 cadmium, 152, 153 Califano, Joseph, 128 California, 134, 139, 141 canal, transportation by, 18, 26–27. See also water, transportation by carcinogens, 146, 149, 152 Caribbean, 15 Carnegie, Andrew, 43 Carnegie Steel, 26, 43, 44 Carrion, Adolfo, Jr., 132 Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring, 146, 147, 161 Carter administration, 150 catalog sales, 38, 40 Cato Institute, 136 census data, 47–48, 49, 51, 53 CERCLA. See Superfund (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act) Cermack-Laflin Corporation, 123 CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), 152 Chase, Stuart, 72, 74, 170 Chase National Bank, 114 Chicago: crime in, 68; distribution through, 27; immigrants in, 52; industrialization of, 27, 43, 52; and National Association of Waste Material Dealers, 71; and railroad, 43; and regulations to prevent disease, 67; scrap business zoning in, 76; scrap dealers in, 52, 60; scrap firms in, 141; scrap processing in, 192n2; segregation in, 76; and Tanenbaum, 98, 99; and wartime economy, 92; waste material firms in, 111 children: delinquency of, 67, 68–69; employment of, 54; involvement of, 84; law against business with, 34; scavenging by, 10, 34, 52, 86, 176n63; social mobility of, 98, 99; theft by, 34; and wartime scrap drives, 94 Chile, 25 Chrysler, 105 Cincinnati, Ohio, 18 Civil War, 5, 13, 21–22, 25, 30, 31 class, 4, 11, 39, 52, 76. See also middle class; mobility, social/ economic; working class Claster, Joel, 112 Clayton Antitrust Act, 122, 123 Clean Air Act, 147 Clean Water Act, 147 I N D E X 207 clerical workers, 38 Cleveland, Ohio, 98, 111, 141 Cline, Nathan, 30–31, 48 closed loop, 5, 7, 8, 9, 152, 164 clothing, 10, 14, 26, 38, 40, 173n13. See also rag dealers clothing business, 45 cloth trade, 71 Clymer, Robert H., 112 coal, 23...