Cash for Your Trash by Carl A. ZimringISBN: 9780813536866
Publication Date: 2005-09-06
Over the past two decades, concern about the environment has brought with it a tremendous increase in recycling in the United States and around the world. For many, it has become not only a civic, but also a moral obligation. Long before our growing levels of waste became an environmental concern, however, recycling was a part of everyday life for many Americans, and for a variety of reasons. From rural peddlers who traded kitchen goods for scrap metal to urban children who gathered rags in exchange for coal, individuals have been finding ways to reuse discarded materials for hundreds of years.In Cash for Your Trash, Carl A. Zimring provides a fascinating history of scrap recycling, from colonial times to the present.