Front cover image for American alchemy : the history of solid waste management in the United States

American alchemy : the history of solid waste management in the United States

Print Book, English, [2003]
Forester Press, Santa Barbara, CA, [2003]
History
x, 597 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780970768728, 0970768729
54935065
Pioneering efforts to improve refuse collection and disposal
Building a national movement
Establishing a national solid waste management infrastructure
Collecting solid waste / No longer the beasts of burden
Composting municipal solid waste: sometimes a good idea does not sell
Making a silk purse out of a sow's ear: processing municipal solid waste to recover materials
Refuse-derived fuel and energy recovery: fulfilling the resource recovery promise
A reverse Marshall Plan: the use of European mass-burn waste-to-energy grate/furnace/boiler technologies in the US
Solid waste reduction, diversion, and recycling: the last frontier in solid waste management
The sanitary landfill: on this foundation, integrated solid waste management was built
Key moments in MSW management history and other interesting things