"This volume looks at the bicycle in tandem with the history of recycling, and how both have shaped and are shaping Earth's environment." NMAH copy 39088019841543 gift of Robert Friedel. How old ...

“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.

Today's technologies are ready for the recycle and reuse of a variety of post-consumer plastic streams. However, achieving scale and competitive economics are necessary to create a circular economy ...

WHERE WE'VE COME FROM: Disposal over the years -- The situation today -- The alternatives -- THE BASICS OF RECYCLING: A brief history of recycling -- Current collection methods -- Processing and ...