Wasting Away - An Exploration of Waste: What It Is, How It Happens, Why We Fear It, How To Do It Well
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ISBN: 0871566753 / Publisher: Random House Inc, April 1991
A comprehensive overview of waste processes in the natural world and in human cultures of many eras and lands, discussing military waste, vandalism and wrecking, arson, scavenging, abandonment and dereliction, and reuse
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Lynch presents an overview of waste processes in the natural world and in human cultures of many eras and lands, discussing military waste, arson, wrecking, scavenging, and reuse. Drawing on historical examples, he shows how one person's waste may be another's resource, and he defines his own philosophy on the subject as "positive wasting", making the best of an inevitable process. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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