The ethics of waste :: how we relate to rubbish /

Gay Hawkins explores the ethical significance of waste in everyday life, from the broadest conceptions of waste and loss to how the environmental movement has affected the ways we think about garbage. Do we feel virtuous for reusing plastic bags and disdain those who don't? At what point does p...

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Main Author: Hawkins, Gay (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Gay Hawkins explores the ethical significance of waste in everyday life, from the broadest conceptions of waste and loss to how the environmental movement has affected the ways we think about garbage. Do we feel virtuous for reusing plastic bags and disdain those who don't? At what point does personal waste become public responsibility? How does this 'public conscience' affect policy? Placing these ideas into historical, social, and cultural perspective, this thoughtful book seeks ways to change ecologically destructive practices without recourse to guilt, moralism, or despair.
Physical Description:1 online resource (163 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-143) and index.
ISBN:9780742578913
0742578917

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