Exporting Harm
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Reassembling Rubbish
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Author : Josh Lepawsky
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-04-13
Reassembling Rubbish written by Josh Lepawsky and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-13 with Political Science categories.
An examination of the global trade and traffic in discarded electronics that reframes the question of the “right” thing to do with e-waste. The prevailing storyline about the problem of electronic waste frames e-waste as generated by consumers in developed countries and dumped on people and places in developing countries. In Reassembling Rubbish, Josh Lepawsky offers a different view. In an innovative analysis of the global trade and traffic in discarded electronics, Lepawsky reframes the question of the “right” thing to do with e-waste, mapping the complex flows of electronic materials. He counters the assumption that e-waste is a post-consumer problem, pointing out that waste occurs at all stages of electronic materials' existence, and calls attention to the under-researched world of reuse and repair. Lepawsky explains that there are conflicting legal distinctions between electronic waste and non-waste, and examines a legal case that illustrates the consequences. He shows that patterns of trade do not support the dominant narrative of e-waste dumping but rather represent the dynamic ecologies of repair, refurbishment, and materials recovery. He asks how we know waste, how we measure it, and how we construe it, and how this affects our efforts to mitigate it. We might not put so much faith in household recycling if we counted the more massive amounts of pre-consumer electronic waste as official e-waste. Lepawsky charts the “minescapes,” “productionscapes,” and “clickscapes” of electronics, and the uneven “discardscapes” they produce. Finally, he considers both conventional and unconventional e-waste solutions, including decriminalizing export for reuse, repair, and upgrade; enabling ethical trade in electronics reuse, repair, refurbishment, and recycling; implementing extended producer responsibility; and instituting robust forms of public oversight.
Climate Change And Justice
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Author : Jeremy Moss
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-13
Climate Change And Justice written by Jeremy Moss and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-13 with Philosophy categories.
This collection sheds new light on the key ethical issues of climate change justice.
High Tech Trash
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Author : Elizabeth Grossman
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2007-09-15
High Tech Trash written by Elizabeth Grossman and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-15 with Business & Economics categories.
An environmental journalist reveals that digital may be sleek, but it's anything but clean. Deep within every electronic device lie toxic materials that make up the bits and bytes, a complex thicket of lead, mercury, cadmium, plastics, and a host of other often harmful ingredients.
Exporting Harm
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Author : Jim Puckett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Exporting Harm written by Jim Puckett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Computers categories.
Capitalizing On Environmental Injustice
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Author : Daniel Faber
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2008-07-17
Capitalizing On Environmental Injustice written by Daniel Faber and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-17 with Nature categories.
Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice provides a comprehensive overview of the achievements and challenges confronting the environmental justice movement. Pressured by increased international competition and the demand for higher profits, industrial and political leaders are working to weaken many of America's most essential environmental, occupational, and consumer protection laws. In addition, corporate-led globalization exports many ecological hazards abroad. The result is a deepening of the ecological crisis in both the United States and the Global South. However, not all people are impacted equally. In this process of capital restructuring, it is the most marginalized segments of society -poor people of color and the working class-that suffer the greatest force of corporate environmental abuses. Daniel Faber, a leading environmental sociologist, analyzes the global political and economic forces that create these environmental injustices. With a multi-disciplinary approach, Faber presents both broad overviews and powerful insider case studies, examining the connections between many different struggles for change. Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice explores compelling movements to challenge the polluter-industrial complex and bring about meaningful social transformation.
Electronic Waste
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund and Waste Management
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Electronic Waste written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund and Waste Management and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Remains Of The Everyday
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Author : Joshua Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2020-12-22
Remains Of The Everyday written by Joshua Goldstein and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-22 with History categories.
Remains of the Everyday traces the changing material culture and industrial ecology of China through the lens of recycling. Over the last century, waste recovery and secondhand goods markets have been integral to Beijing’s economic functioning and cultural identity, and acts of recycling have figured centrally in the ideological imagination of modernity and citizenship. On the one hand, the Chinese state has repeatedly promoted acts of voluntary recycling as exemplary of conscientious citizenship. On the other, informal recycling networks—from the night soil carriers of the Republican era to the collectors of plastic and cardboard in Beijing’s neighborhoods today—have been represented as undisciplined, polluting, and technologically primitive due to the municipal government’s failure to control them. The result, Joshua Goldstein argues, is the repeatedly re-inscribed exclusion of waste workers from formations of modern urban citizenship as well as the intrinsic liminality of recycling itself as an economic process.
Cartelization In Western Europe
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Author : Corwin D. Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Cartelization In Western Europe written by Corwin D. Edwards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Antitrust law categories.
Digital Rubbish
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Author : Jennifer Gabrys
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2011-03-02
Digital Rubbish written by Jennifer Gabrys and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-02 with Nature categories.
Exploring the materiality of digital devices through electronic waste
Electronic Waste
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Author : John B. Stephenson
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03
Electronic Waste written by John B. Stephenson and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03 with Computers categories.
Increasingly, U.S. consumers are recycling their old electronics to prevent the environmental harm that can come from disposal. But, some U.S. companies are exporting these items to developing countries, where unsafe recycling practices can cause health and environmental problems. To prevent this practice, since Jan. 2007, the EPA began regulating the export of cathode ray tubes (CRT) under its CRT rule, which requires companies to notify EPA before exporting CRTs. This report examined: (1) the fate of exported used electronics; (2) the effectiveness of regulatory controls over the export of these devices; and (3) options to strengthen federal regulation of exported used electronics. Includes recommendations. Illustrations.