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Wasted

Author : Byron Reese
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 0593135180
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Wasted written by Byron Reese and published by Currency. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wasted is a riveting exploration of the complicated, and often surprising, ways that waste occurs in our businesses, our communities, and our lives “A smart, unconventional book that takes readers far beyond what they think they know about a complex subject.”—Kari Byron, former cast member of MythBusters Waste. We spend a great deal of energy trying to avoid it, but once you train your eyes to look for it, you’ll see it all around you—in your home, your business, and your everyday life. In Wasted, futurist Byron Reese and entrepreneur Scott Hoffman take readers on a fascinating journey through this modern world of waste, drawing on science, economics, and human behavior to envision what a world with far less of it—or none of it at all—might look like. Along the way, they explore thought-provoking issues such as • why the United States got a higher proportion of its energy from renewable sources in 1950 than it does today • whether the amount of gold in unused mobile phones can be extracted for profit • how switching to water fountains on a single route from Singapore to Newark could prevent the use of 3,400 plastic bottles—on each flight • whether the amount of money you save buying goods in bulk is offset by the amount you lose when some spoil. Ultimately, the question of reducing waste is scientific, philosophical, and, most of all, complex. According to Reese and Hoffman, the rush toward simple answers has often led to well-meaning efforts that cause more waste than they save. The only way we can hope to make progress is to treat waste as the complicated issue it is. While the authors don’t promise easy answers, in this compelling book they take an important step toward solutions by examining the questions at play, giving actionable steps, and ensuring that you’ll never see the world of waste the same way again.

The Waste Books

Author : Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9780940322509
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book The Waste Books written by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century polymath: an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. He is most celebrated, however, for the casual notes and aphorisms that he collected in what he called his Waste Books. With unflagging intelligence and encyclopedic curiosity, Lichtenberg wittily deflates the pretensions of learning and society, examines a range of philosophical questions, and tracks his own thoughts down hidden pathways to disconcerting and sometimes hilarious conclusions. Lichtenberg's Waste Books have been greatly admired by writers as very different as Tolstoy, Einstein, and Andre Breton, while Nietzsche and Wittgenstein acknowledged them as a significant inspiration for their own radical work in philosophy. The record of a brilliant and subtle mind in action, The Waste Books are above all a powerful testament to the necessity, and pleasure, of unfettered thought.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Author : Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438441983
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Georg Christoph Lichtenberg written by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admired by philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Freud, Benjamin, and Wittgenstein, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) is known to the English-speaking world mostly as a satirist. An eminent experimental physicist and mathematician, Lichtenberg was knowledgeable about the philosophical views of his time, and interested in uncovering the philosophical commitments that underlie our common beliefs. In his notebooks (which he called his Waste Books) he often reflects on, challenges, and critiques these philosophical commitments and the dominant views of the Enlightenment, German idealism, and British empiricism. This scholarly collection of Lichtenberg's philosophical aphorisms contains hundreds of trenchant observations drawn from these notebooks, many of which have been translated into English here for the first time. It also includes a historical and philosophical introduction to his writings, situating him in the history of philosophy and ideas, and is supplemented with a chronology, suggestions for further reading, and extensive introductory and textual notes explaining his references.

World Wide Waste: How Digital Is Killing Our Planetâand What We Can Do About It

Author : Gerry McGovern
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1916444628
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book World Wide Waste: How Digital Is Killing Our Planetâand What We Can Do About It written by Gerry McGovern and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking out when it's unpopular. Back in the day, Henry David Thoreau raged at the robber barons-the big shots of their age, despoiling the environment in the name of progress. Deep in the throes of the seemingly unstoppable growth of tech, a modern-day Thoreau has emerged in the guise of Gerry McGovern-decrying the massive, hidden negative impacts of tech on the environment. McGovern has thoroughly documented in World Wide Waste how tech damages the Earth-and what we should be doing about it. It is not just the acres of discarded computer hardware conveniently dumped in Third World countries. Every time an email is downloaded it contributes to global warming. Every tweet, search, check of a webpage creates pollution. Digital is physical. Those data centers are not in the Cloud. They're on land in massive physical buildings packed full of computers hungry for energy. It seems invisible. It seems cheap and free. It's not. Digital costs the Earth.

Sustainable Solid Waste Collection and Management

Author : Ana Pires
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319932004
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Solid Waste Collection and Management written by Ana Pires and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the collection of waste and waste streams as an integral aspect of sustainable waste management. The authors take economic models and behavioral studies into account to go beyond just descriptions of waste collections technologies and collection route design. Models and tools for sustainable waste collection are described in detail, and the authors provide a comprehensive, integrated methodology to design waste collection systems that reduce environmental impacts, are economically viable, and achieve buy-in and participation from target populations. Part I of the book provides fundamentals and context on waste hierarchy, including waste prevention, reduction and reuse, waste collection itself, and steps such as preparation for recycling, recycling, treatment, and landfilling. Background in environmental, social, and economic concerns surrounding waste collection is also provided here. Part II addresses tools for design, operation, and maintenance of waste collection systems. Part III focuses on how the tools presented in Part II can be used to support sustainability assessments and decisions that consider the entire life cycle of waste and the role of waste collection programs in waste prevention, reduction, reuse, recycling, treatment, and disposal. Part IV addresses the challenges of developing sustainable waste management systems and addresses the role of waste collection in sustainable waste management in the future.

The Collection and Disposal of Municipal Waste

Author : William Francis Morse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Collection and Disposal of Municipal Waste written by William Francis Morse and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Waste

Author : Kate O'Neill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745687431
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Waste written by Kate O'Neill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waste is one of the planet’s last great resource frontiers. From furniture made from up-cycled wood to gold extracted from computer circuit boards, artisans and multinational corporations alike are finding ways to profit from waste while diverting materials from overcrowded landfills. Yet beyond these benefits, this “new” resource still poses serious risks to human health and the environment. In this unique book, Kate O’Neill traces the emergence of the global political economy of wastes over the past two decades. She explains how the emergence of waste governance initiatives and mechanisms can help us deal with both the risks and the opportunities associated with the hundreds of millions – possibly billions – of tons of waste we generate each year. Drawing on a range of fascinating case studies to develop her arguments, including China’s role as the primary recipient of recyclable plastics and scrap paper from the Western world, “Zero-Waste” initiatives, the emergence of transnational waste-pickers’ alliances, and alternatives for managing growing volumes of electronic and food wastes, O’Neill shows how waste can be a risk, a resource, and even a livelihood, with implications for governance at local, national, and global levels.

Waste and Want

Author : Susan Strasser
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805065121
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Waste and Want written by Susan Strasser and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999.

Waste is a Terrible Thing to Mind

Author : John R. Weingart
Publisher : Rivergate Books
ISBN 13 : 9780813542379
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Waste is a Terrible Thing to Mind written by John R. Weingart and published by Rivergate Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waste Is a Terrible Thing to Mind is a compelling, suspenseful, and amusing insider's account of New Jersey policy and politics, but it is also a larger saga of the challenges facing society in the post-9/11 era when the public's distrust of government is increasing at the same time that its sensitivity to health and safety threats is heightened.

In Praise of Wasting Time

Author : Alan Lightman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501154370
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Wasting Time written by Alan Lightman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely and essential book that offers a fresh take on the qualms of modern day life, Professor Alan Lightman investigates the creativity born from allowing our minds to freely roam, without attempting to accomplish anything and without any assigned tasks. We are all worried about wasting time. Especially in the West, we have created a frenzied lifestyle in which the twenty-four hours of each day are carved up, dissected, and reduced down to ten minute units of efficiency. We take our iPhones and laptops with us on vacation. We check email at restaurants or our brokerage accounts while walking in the park. When the school day ends, our children are overloaded with “extras.” Our university curricula are so crammed our young people don’t have time to reflect on the material they are supposed to be learning. Yet in the face of our time-driven existence, a great deal of evidence suggests there is great value in “wasting time,” of letting the mind lie fallow for some periods, of letting minutes and even hours go by without scheduled activities or intended tasks. Gustav Mahler routinely took three or four-hour walks after lunch, stopping to jot down ideas in his notebook. Carl Jung did his most creative thinking and writing when he visited his country house. In his 1949 autobiography, Albert Einstein described how his thinking involved letting his mind roam over many possibilities and making connections between concepts that were previously unconnected. With In Praise of Wasting Time, Professor Alan Lightman documents the rush and heave of the modern world, suggests the technological and cultural origins of our time-driven lives, and examines the many values of “wasting time”—for replenishing the mind, for creative thought, and for finding and solidifying the inner self. Break free from the idea that we must not waste a single second, and discover how sometimes the best thing to do is to do nothing at all.

Waste

Author : Trevor Letcher
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 012815442X
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Waste written by Trevor Letcher and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waste: A Handbook for Management, Second Edition, provides information on a wide range of hot topics and developing areas, such as hydraulic fracturing, microplastics, waste management in developing countries, and waste-exposure-outcome pathways. Beginning with an overview of the current waste landscape, including green engineering, processing principles and regulations, the book then outlines waste streams and treatment methods for over 25 different types of waste and reviews best practices and management, challenges for developing countries, risk assessment, contaminant pathways and risk tradeoffs. With an overall focus on waste recovery, reuse, prevention and lifecycle analysis, the book draws on the experience of an international team of expert contributors to provide reliable guidance on how best to manage wastes for scientists, managers, engineers and policymakers in both the private and public sectors. - Covers the assessment and treatment of different waste streams in a single book - Provides a hands-on report on each type of waste problem as written by an expert in the field - Highlights new findings and evolving problems in waste management via discussion boxes

Collection & recycling of plastic waste

Author : Anna Fråne
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9289328045
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Collection & recycling of plastic waste written by Anna Fråne and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first report from the project “Improvements in existing collection and recycling systems for plastic waste from households and other municipal waste sources” is focused on describing the existing situation when it comes to collection and recycling of plastic waste in the Nordic countries. The streams covered are (all from both households and other MSW sources): • Plastic packaging waste. • Non-packaging small plastic waste. • Plastic bulky waste. Similarities and differences among the Nordic countries are presented in the report. The findings provide input into the development of suggestions for improvements. The report is part of the Nordic Prime Ministers’ green growth initiative: “The Nordic Region – leading in green growth.” Read more in the web magazine “Green Growth the Nordic Way” at www.nordicway. org or at www.norden.org/greengrowth The report for Part 2 will be published in December 2014.

Municipal Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries

Author : Sunil Kumar
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1498737757
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Municipal Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries written by Sunil Kumar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains detailed and structured approaches to tackling practical decision-making troubles using economic consideration and analytical methods in Municipal solid waste (MSW) management. Among all other types of environmental burdens, MSW management is still a mammoth task, and the worst part is that a suitable technique to curb the situation in developing countries has still not emerged. Municipal Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries will help fill this information gap based on information provided by field professionals. This information will be helpful to improve and manage solid waste systems through the application of modern management techniques. It covers all the fundamental concepts of MSWM; the various component systems, such as collection, transportation, processing, and disposal; and their integration. This book also discusses various component technologies available for the treatment, processing, and disposal of MSW. Written in view of actual scenarios in developing countries, it provides knowledge to develop solutions for prolonged problems in these nations. It is mainly for undergraduate and postgraduate students, research scholars, professionals, and policy makers.

Analysis of Waste Paper Recycling and Disposal Options in Germany - 8076iied

Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843691604
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Analysis of Waste Paper Recycling and Disposal Options in Germany - 8076iied written by International Institute for Environment & Development and published by IIED. This book was released on 1996 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biomedical Waste Management

Author : Prof. Umesh B. Kakde
Publisher : RK Publication
ISBN 13 : 9348020633
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Biomedical Waste Management written by Prof. Umesh B. Kakde and published by RK Publication. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biomedical Waste Management provides a comprehensive guide to manage biomedical waste in healthcare settings, addressing methods of segregation, collection, storage, treatment, and disposal to ensure environmental and public safety. It covers regulatory frameworks, best practices, and emerging technologies in waste management, making it an essential resource for healthcare professionals, environmentalists, and policymakers. With a focus on minimizing health risks and ecological impact, this book underscores the importance of efficient waste management systems in preserving both human health and the environment.

Integrated Waste Management

Author : Akanksha Gupta
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819708230
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Integrated Waste Management written by Akanksha Gupta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: United Kingdom 2022

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264442790
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: United Kingdom 2022 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, the United Kingdom has reduced several environmental pressures while growing its economy. Ahead of its presidency of the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, it has led the way by raising its national ambition. However, air pollution, deteriorating natural assets and missed biodiversity targets are all concerns.