Don't Burn it Here: Grassroots Challenges to Trash Incinerators

by Rex Warland, D. Clayton Smith, Edward J. Walsh, et al.

Book Overview

When first proposed in this country during the 1970s, waste-to-energy (WTE) incinerators appeared to be ideal solutions to the growing mounds of trash in our "throw-away" society. Promising to convert useless garbage into electricity while saving precious landfill space, trash incinerators seemed perfectly timed to respond to a national need. Within a decade, however, a grassroots anti-incineration movement emerged as a vibrant offshoot of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271016647
• ISBN13: 9780271016641
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"