Garbage and Recycling: Opposing Viewpoints is a book, in the Opposing Viewpoints series

Opposing Viewpoints series

The Opposing Viewpoints series is a series of books on current issues which seeks to explore the varying opinions in a balanced pros/cons debate...

, presenting selections of contrasting viewpoints (of an array of scholars, political analysts, scientists, and journalists) on whether garbage

Waste

Waste is unwanted or useless materials. In biology, waste is any of the many unwanted substances or toxins that are expelled from living organisms, metabolic waste; such as urea, sweat or feces. Litter is waste which has been disposed of improperly...

 and toxic waste

Toxic waste

Toxic waste is waste material that can cause death or injury to living creatures. It spreads quite easily and can contaminate lakes and rivers. The term is often used interchangeably with “hazardous waste”, or discarded material that can pose a long-term risk to health or environment.Toxic waste...

 are serious problems, the effectiveness of recycling

Recycling

Recycling is processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution and water pollution by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse...

, and the innovations that will reduce waste. It was edited by Helen Cothran.

It was published by Greenhaven Press

Greenhaven Press

Greenhaven Press has been an imprint of Gale since 2000. Greenhaven primarily publishes books on social issues for middle school and high school students, and is best known for its Opposing Viewpoints series...

 (Farmington Hills) in 2003 as a 218-page hardcover (ISBN 0-7377-1230-9) and paperback (ISBN 0-7377-1229-5).

Contents

Chapter	Viewpoint	Author	Notes
Why Consider Opposing Viewpoints?
Introduction
Chapter 1: Is Garbage a Serious Problem?	1. Better Waste Management Strategies Are Needed to Avert a Garbage Crisis	Arthur H. Purcell	Excerpt from "Trash Troubles," The World & I, November 1998.
	2. The Garbage Crisis Has Been Averted	Marian R. Chertow	Excerpt from "Waste, Industrial Ecology, and Sustainability," Social Research Social Research Social Research is a quarterly academic journal of the social sciences, published by The New School for Social Research, the graduate social science division of The New School. The journal has been published continuously since 1934. It has featured over 2,000 authors, including Hannah Arendt, Leo... , Spring, 1998.
	3. Landfills Are Dangerous	Peter Montague	Excerpt from "Landfills Are Dangerous, Rachel's Environmental & Health Weekly, September 24, 1998.
	4. Landfills Have Become Safer	Bud Angst	Excerpt from "What Is Inside a Landfill?," in Insight on the News, April 1, 2003.
	5. Interstate Garbage Shipping Is Harmful	Paul E. Kanjorski Paul E. Kanjorski Paul E. Kanjorski is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1985 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.The district includes the cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Hazleton, as well as most of the Poconos....
	6. Interstate Garbage Shipping Is Beneficial	Bruce Parker Bruce Parker Bruce Parker is a British journalist and television presenter whose career spanned the middle 1960s to 2003, when he retired. Strongly committed to regional broadcasting, he was responsible in the mid-1960s for a pilot local radio station in the Channel Islands, which eventually led to the setting...
Chapter 2: Is Recycling Effective?	1. Recycling Benefits the Environment	Sam Martin Sam Martin Sam Alan Martin is a professional speedway rider for Sheffield Tigers.- References :...
	2. Recycling Does Not Solve Environmental Problems	Robert Lilienfeld Robert Lilienfeld Robert Lilienfeld is co-author of Use Less Stuff: Environmental Solutions for Who We Really Are. He is also president of The Cygnus Group, a management consulting firm located in Rochester, Michigan.-External links:*...  and William Rathje William Rathje William Laurens Rathje is an American archaeologist. He is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Arizona, with a joint appointment with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, and is consulting professor of anthropological sciences at Stanford University...
	3. Recycling Is Economical	Allen Hershkowitz Allen Hershkowitz Dr. Allen Hershkowitz is a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council , where he champions environmental responsibility. In 2009, Yoga + Joyful Living magazine dubbed him “The Godfather of Greening.” Since joining NRDC in 1988, Dr...
	4. Current Recycling Programs Are Too Expensive	Clark Wiseman
	5. Mandatory Recycling Wastes Resources	Doug Bandow Doug Bandow Douglas Bandow is a former columnist with Copley News Service and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He resigned from Cato in 2005 due a scandal involving payments for columns from lobbyist Jack Abramoff and wrote about it in the Los Angeles Times. As of March 2009, Bandow is again working at...
	6. Mandatory Recycling Programs Work	William J. Cohen
Chapter 3: Is Toxic Waste Disposal a Serious Problem?	1. Hazardous Waste Cleanup Projects Have Been Successful	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency United States Environmental Protection Agency The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress...
	2. Hazardous Waste Cleanup Projects Usually Fail	R. Allan Freeze
	3. Nuclear Waste Disposal Is a Serious Problem	Greenpeace Greenpeace Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...
	4. Nuclear Waste Disposal Is Not a Serious Problem	Nuclear Energy Institute Nuclear Energy Institute The Nuclear Energy Institute is a nuclear industry lobbying group in the United States.- Synopsis :According to its website, the NEI "develops policy on key legislative and regulatory issues affecting the industry. NEI then serves as a unified industry voice before the U.S...
	5. Radioactive Metal Recycling Is Beneficial	S.Y. Chen
	6. Radioactive Metal Recycling Endangers Human Health	David E. Adelman
	7. Recycling Sewer Sludge Into Fertilizer Is Beneficial	Lori Irvine and Anne Bonelli
	8. Recycling Sewer Sludge Into Fertilizer Is Harmful	Sheila R. Cherry
Chapter 4: What Innovations Will Help Reduce Waste?	1. Strategies to Minimize Medical Pollution Can Reduce Toxic Waste	Charlie Cray
	2. Designing for Disassembly Will Help Reduce Waste	Gene Bylinsky, Alicia Hills Moore, and Karen Nickel Anhalt
	3. New Plastics Sorting Technology Will Reduce Waste	Conard Holton
	4. Microorganisms Can Help Clean Up Toxic Waste	Todd Zwillich	From "Hazardous Waste Cleanup: A Tentative Comeback for Bioremediation," Science Science (journal) Science is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is one of the world's top scientific journals.... , 29 September 2000.
Glossary
For Further Discussion
Organizations to Contact
Bibliography of Books
Index