I am writing to let you know that the Yale Program on Solid Waste
Policy has recently issued two new papers in its Working Paper Series.
BACK TO BASICS? THE VIABILITY OF PLASTICS RECYCLING BY TERTIARY
PROCESSES examines the financial and environmental feasibility of recycling
plastic wastes using chemical technologies. Tertiary recycling, as this
approach is called, evokes strong =97 and differing =97 opinions in industry=
and
environmental circles. T. Randall Curlee and Sujit Das of the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, two leading experts in the economics and technology of
plastics recycling, ask under what circumstances it makes sense to recycle
plastics by chemical means. And do those conditions exist today?
NO TIME TO WASTE: TIME USE AND THE GENERATION OF RESIDENTIAL SOLID
WASTE by Geoffrey Godbey of Pennsylvania State University, a leading scholar
of time use, addresses the changing attitudes of individuals toward
consumption and waste generation in light of changing demographics and work
and family life. It describes how the changing roles of men and women in
the household and in empoyment have shaped the products that we purchase and
consume and how that in turn alters the waste that we discard.
For information on ordering any of the papers, please visit the
Program's web page at http://www.yale.edu/pswp or send e-mail to
pswp@yale.edu. Abstracts of the papers are also available via e-mail.
The Yale Program on Solid Waste Policy, a research and teaching unit
of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University,
publishes the Working Paper Series on Solid Waste Policy to fill in critical
gaps in research and analysis and to advance the policy debate in solid
waste management.
Please excuse any multiple or cross-postings of this announcement.
Thank you for your interest,
Reid Lifset
Editor, and Associate Director
Working Papers on Solid Waste Policy
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Program on Solid Waste Policy
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Yale University
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New Haven,CT 06511-2106
USA
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