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The catalyst for the conference which gave rise to these proceedings was the decision of the former UK Government to block further investigation by the nuclear waste agency, UK Nirex Ltd, for a national radioactive waste repository near the Sellafield site. This decision made it essential to reconsider the question: Where next for radioactive waste management?

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Examines a critical problem facing the nuclear power industryhigh-level what to do with spent fuel and radioactive waste generated by nuclear power plants. ... Read more

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Serving as both a reference and a textbook, Handbook of Environmental Analysis is the first exhaustive treatment of the analysis of toxic pollutants in the environment. Areas addressed include: ... Read more

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A simple and indepth discussion on analysis of pollutants
This book gives an exhaustive treatment of all aspects of environmental analyses of pollutants in aqueous matrices, soils, sediments and air.There is also an indepth discussion on basic analytical chemistry andvarious instrumental techniques, the concepts of quality control andquality assurance, statistical approach and many solved examples.Asimple, concise and well-written book that can be serve as both a referencehandbook and textbook.

Shallow and superficial
A superficial attempt to garner book sales based on the title "Handbook of Environmental Analysis", in its 3rd edition by Genium Publishing at the time of this publication.The other alternativeis that the author was so unaware of the environmental industry that he hadnever heard of the book. ... Read more

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Controversies concerning the siting of facilities for thedisposal and treatment of hazardous but also domestic waste arewidespread in all of the industrialized countries. The paradoxicalsituation of projects that are needed for environmental reasons andare opposed on environmental grounds has been addressed by scholarsand by policy-makers searching for solutions. However, only in a fewcases have waste disposal facilities actually been built and madeoperational.
The aim of the book (which illustrates the results of a researchproject financed by the EU-DGXII) is to investigate thedecision-making processes for the siting and creation of wastefacilities, in order to identify the factors for predicting success.Adopting a Public Policy Analysis approach the book presents six casesof successful decision-making on waste facilities siting in France,Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and Slovenia, drawinglessons for the redefinition of public policy-making in the field ofwaste treatment.
The conclusions of this book are interesting for all fields of publicpolicy where conflict is a relevant problem. This book is also ofinterest to scholars in the environmental field, as well as in publicpolicy analysis, and to practitioners and (public or private) actorsinvolved in environmental policy. ... Read more

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The political and industrial significance of the new environmentalism of the 1980s arose from the recognition of growing public pressure for environmental quality and product reliability. Increasingly, attention has turned to waste as the product of consumption. As the political economy of waste was explored, new issues were raised: new technologies, recycling, pollution havens, waste minimization, location of landfill sites and incinerator facilities as well as environmental crime, responsibility and planning. The 1990s sees the advocates of "cradle to grave" responsibility still battling the promoters of market forces. "Waste Location" seeks to widen and integrate the debate on the intrinsically geographical nature of waste disposal. One of the major developments in the study of waste collection and disposal is the new forms of data collection and handling technology. The contributors consider both geotechnics and geographical information systems within this context. The focus on the geography of the UK is set within the broader framework of political economy and the international trade in pollution exports. Case studies are presented.This book should be of interest to students, local authorities and environmental agencies involved in planning, environmental science and geography. ... Read more

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Previously published as part of the 2000 subscription to Water Science & Technology, Volume 42, Number 10-11. ... Read more

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This book will prove useful not only for both large and small academic institutions, but for small businesses as well. As small quantity generators and conditionally excluded small quantity generators, secondary schools, colleges, universities, and small businesses will identify with the problems-and solutions-presented here. The approaches in this book can save many chemistry departments thousands of dollars. In addition, they significantly clarify the often complicated legal requirements placed on both secondary and post-secondary institutions by state and federal government.This informative book offers specific, practical, and cost-effective solutions to the problems of waste disposal, from a description of a successful program to conduct a one-time cleanout of secondary schools, to the identification of chemicals that have no identity.Approaches to waste disposal taken around the country, including in-house treatment, lab packing, and the benefits of recycling through waste exchange programs are covered. ... Read more

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An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society.

Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Here she turns to an essential but neglected part of that culture-the trash it produces-and finds in it an unexpected wealth of meaning. Before the twentieth century, streets and bodies stank, but trash was nearly nonexistent. With goods and money scarce, almost everything was reused. Strasser paints a vivid picture of an America where scavenger pigs roamed the streets, swill children collected kitchen garbage, and itinerant peddlers traded manufactured goods for rags and bones. Over the last hundred years, however, Americans have become hooked on convenience, disposability, fashion, and constant technological change-the rise of mass consumption has led to waste on a previously unimaginable scale.

Lively and colorful, Waste and Want recaptures a hidden part of our social history, vividly illustrating that what counts as trash depends on who's counting, and that what we throw away defines us as much as what we keep. ... Read more

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Quite interesting
I read this book for research because I wanted to know what people used to do with trash (or what we now call trash). If you're interested in the answer, this is a good book to read. It discusses in detail what people used to do in the 1800's (and before) with old clothing, food scraps, cooking fats, worn or broken items, etc., and how and why that changed over time up until the present.

Wonderfully instructiveReal eye opener
What an intriguing book. Not at all what I expected since I had assumed that materialism and toss out rather than repair was something that became the norm after WW2.The book says this actually happened close to one hundred years earlier.Interesting that during the Great Depression advertisers told people that buying, even on credit would be good. That changed when WW2 happened and sugar, gas etc were rationed, and people were once again encouraged to grow a vegetable garden, mend items rather than toss out.

Reading of the mid 1800's how women saved all clothing however well worn, and either repaired or torn apart to make into braided rugs etc reminded me of my paternal grandmother whom I can still see sitting in a comfortable chair making what once was shirts, dresses, skirts into large braided rugs for various rooms in our house.

Also enjoyed reading how even in New York city in the early 1900's had people who kept pigs in their back yards or basements.How no food scrap went to waste, because food wastes were either fed to the animals or put into a compost pile which would become rich fertile soil.

The information the author shares concerning flour sacks was really interesting, because I had long known that women would save, wash flour, seed, food sacks and make them into wearable clothing. But I had no idea that these sacks had washable dyes so that the women could wash them and have a pretty printed sack clothe, to make items.I also didn't know that women would take worn sheets, cut them down the middle and then sew both good sides together to get double duty out of the bed sheet.

Living in a cottage here in the Mother Lode of California where the California gold rush began, I am well aware that people didn't have garbage dumps where they could take empty bottles etc. So as you dig in the back yards around here you encounter scads of blue, clear, amber colored bottles that must have held medicines or other home items in the 1800's.Writing on page 112 the author shares how 'cities passed antidumping ordinances throughout the nineteenth century, but many people ignored them'. And that 'Periodic epidemics renewed the pressure on lawmakers to pass new regulations, to establish boards of health, or make special appropriations for cleaning up particularly bad messes'.Reminds me of anti-littering laws we have and the dreaded EPA toxic waste sites.Seems little has changed in some ways.

One page 120 the author writes 'Urban America discovered the 'garbage problem' in the late 1880's and early 1890's writes historian Martin Melosi; addressing it was the second step in the sanitary reformers' campaign, after clean water and good sewers.' Something to think about when one studies the various illnesses that were around when open sewers, contaminated well water etc were a constant concern.Wish more people would stop and think about what a blessing the modern sewer plant is, in preventing major illnesses, often life threatening of the past.

The book also is an excellent reminder of how much we waste and how much stuff 'we' buy that we neither need nor want.And a reminder of how much usable waste like kitchen scraps we put down modern day garbage disposal, instead of into backyard compost containers.

What makes todays mode of recycling so different from decades and even centuries past is the fact that in the past, people didn't seem to spend or waste money on things they neither needed or wanted since hard cold cash was so hard to come by, or required such hard work to earn, that when one did have money they were much more frugal. In 2006 and recent years, people recycle or have yard sales not because they have old items they no longer need, but all to often because they have newer items they often have become bored with, and need to donate or sell. Not the waste not, want not way of living our ancestors knew.

Massively, stunningly unreadable
Waste and Want is a book in the same way that 10,000 pennies are $100.Technically it is correct.But it is less useful and more tedious than one would like.Ms. Strasser has assembled this book like an old time ransom note.But instead of using words cut out from magazines, she used 568 citiations.

A ransom note is short, direct and to the point.Waste and Want cannot be accused of these traits.Most of the quotes appear to come from old household manuals, for example, the 1835 edition of The American Frugal Housewife.(Imagine some future historian expounding on the 21st centry american household using Martha Stewart as her main source.)

The book is massively, stunningly unreadable.

If your opinion is that all waste is evil, you might be able to stomach it.But otherwise read Rubbish by William Rathje - much more enjoyable and educational.

Thought-provoking
This book is a history of household waste in the United States and what we have done with it over the years.Although Strasser takes her research as far back as colonial times, most of the focus is on the habits of the Nineteenth Century, and how they evolved with our changing society. The first chapter introduces the central theme of the book, how in the past, especially before the turn of the Twentieth Century, waste products served as raw materials for other products.In other words, before we ever invented the word "recycling", practically everything was recycled.Over the past 100 years, this has changed, so that now recycling seems like a new idea.Whereas in the past, cities and households constituted one component of a closed production/consumption system that included manufacturers, following the age of industrialization and mass production, that system has broken apart, and there is now a one-way flow from the factories to the consumers.And this flow leads eventually to mountains of garbage, for which we currently seem to have no better solution than mass burial.

Strasser begins her story by describing an archeological dig of a 1620s settlement, where matching pieces of potshards were discovered at great distances from each other, suggesting that if a pot was broken, residents might have been in the habit of reusing the pieces for other purposes.Social history is notoriously hard to reconstruct, since people of the time rarely thought the details of their daily lives important enough to document.This is especially true with the topic of waste, refuse, and garbage.But by carefully picking through such items as housekeeping manuals and business accounting ledgers, Strasser was able to pull many of the pieces of the garbage story together.She found that in the Nineteenth Century, household food scraps were fed to chickens and pigs.Metal and wood items were repaired or refashioned. Before the age of industrial looms, fabric of any kind had much greater value, since all but the very youngest of children were well aware of the tremendous labor involved in weaving cloth.Even after mass-produced fabrics became available, clothing was still stitched, often by hand, at home.For this reason, clothing often symbolized a bond between the producer and the wearer.It was never simply discarded, but rather mended, passed on to others, taken apart and refashioned into new garments, or made into quilts or rugs.As a last resort, it would be used as bandages or sold to the ragman.

The phenomenon of the ragman, as Strasser describes him, is particularly fascinating.This was a person who would make the rounds of rural homes with a motley collection of manufactured goods for sale, such as tin dishpans or soap.For payment, he would accept rags, fats, and bones.These items he would ship off to warehouses to be used as raw materials for paper, soap, and fertilizer.As Strasser puts it "The very distribution system that brought manufactured goods to consumers took recyclable materials back to factories."

Despite these widespread collection networks, early Nineteenth Century factories suffered continuously from a shortage of raw materials, and labor was also relatively scarce in North America.This led to the development of new industrial processes that relied on mass production techniques, which became dependent on new materials rather than recycled ones.This change, combined with the increasing urbanization of society, began to result in garbage and other unwanted items piling up inside and outside people's houses, soon leading to the need for municipal waste collection services.But no sooner had cities organized a collection system than a new problem cropped up: "Paradoxically, the more trash collection there was, the more trash was generated," as Strasser observes.In just the 4 years between 1903 and 1907, the amount of garbage collected by the city of Pittsburgh, for example, increased by 43%.Cities tried various methods to deal with these huge and growing mounds of garbage, from dumping the stuff in water, to piling it up in poor people's neighborhoods, to incinerating it.Significantly, what all of these methods had in common was that sorting of garbage by composition, such as organic material, metal, and glass, was no longer relevant.Cities which once universally required refuse sorting by households rescinded their laws, and it wasn't until the landfill crises of the 1990s that such laws began to be considered again as part of mandatory recycling programs.

This book is filled with many other thought-provoking and interesting topics, such as the history and impact of the Salvation Army and Goodwill, and the patriotic scrap collecting campaigns of the World Wars.Strasser's style is clear and interesting, academic without being stuffy.This is a great resource for anyone interested in material culture, ecology, or American history.

A Treasure based on Trash
Exceptionally fine read!Discusses with fascinating clarity what, on the surface, would appear to be a repellant subject.American History has a whole new meaning.This book answers the unspoken questions of "whatDID they do with...." in an orderly, systematic yet very interestingway.Who would have known garbage could be so riveting?

Well written,without technical jargon and extremely well organized.Strausser hasturned a sow's ear into a silk purse.Excellent discussion of the why andhow of our detritus disposal through the ages right up through the Hippierevival of the 70's and the Recycling Exchange on the internet today.

Ican highly recommend this book to anyone with even a slight interest in thecycle and re-cycle of our castoffs.The integral involvement of thehomemaker in early days was a genuine eye-opener and a sparkling promise offuture possibilities for us all. ... Read more

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Title: Christmas cards no longer have to go to waste.(Environment)(Recycling: Lane County joins effort to keep holiday greetings out of landfills.)
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