Garbage In, Garbage Out: Solving the Problems with Long-Distance Trash Transport

by Vivian E. Thomson

Book Overview

Your garbage is going places you'd never imagine. What used to be sent to the local dump now may move hundreds of miles by truck and barge to its final resting place. Virtually all forms of pollution migrate, subjected to natural forces such as wind and water currents. The movement of garbage, however, is under human control. Its patterns of migration reveal much about power sharing among state, local, and national institutions, about the Constitution's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813928257
• ISBN13: 9780813928258
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary