Professor Catherine Alexander catherine.alexander@durham.ac.uk
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When Waste Disappears, or More Waste Please!
Alexander, Catherine
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Abstract
Energy-from-waste plants in places like Britain were designed help reduce waste and carbon emissions, but they have had unintended side-effects. As Alexander’s essay shows, turning waste into energy does not liberate us from waste itself. On the contrary, the very energy plants that have made waste “disappear” by recasting it as a resource have, paradoxically, led to an increase of waste: in order to operate a new generation of large energy plants, demand for waste has risen and a tendency to ship waste to fewer and ever larger plants has set in.
Citation
Alexander, C. (2016). When Waste Disappears, or More Waste Please!. RCC perspectives (Internet), 1, 31-39. https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/7391
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Apr 3, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Apr 3, 2016 |
Publication Date | Apr 3, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Aug 3, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 5, 2018 |
Journal | Rachel Carson Center perspectives |
Print ISSN | 2190-5088 |
Electronic ISSN | 2190-8087 |
Publisher | Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society |
Peer Reviewed | Not Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 1 |
Pages | 31-39 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/7391 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1324550 |
Related Public URLs | http://www.environmentandsociety.org/sites/default/files/2016_1_alexander.pdf |
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