Making a green machine : the infrastructure of beverage container recycling / Finn Arne Jørgensen.

"Making a Green Machine examines the development of the Scandinavian beverage container deposit-refund system, which has the highest return rates in the world, from 1970 to present. Finn Arne Jorgensen's comparative framework charts the complex network of business and political actors invo...

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Main Author: Jørgensen, Finn Arne, 1975- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2011.
Series:Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 1. Bottles, Cans, and Everyday Environmentalism -- 2. The Problem of Bottles -- 3. Creating Bottle Infrastructures -- 4. A World of Bottles -- 5. Can Cultures -- 6. Greening the RVM -- 7. Making Disposables Environmentally Friendly -- 8. Message in a Bottle. 
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