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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in modern science, technology, and the environmentPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 189 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813550879
  • 0813550874
  • 1283864312
  • 9781283864312
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making a green machine.DDC classification:
  • 363.72/88 22
LOC classification:
  • TD794.5 .J67 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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 involved in the development of the reverse vending machine (RVM) and bottle deposit legislation to better understand the different historical trajectories empty beverage containers have taken across markets, including the U.S. The RVM began simply as a tool for grocers who had to handle empty refillable glass bottles, but has become a green machine to redeem the empty beverage container, helping both business and consumers participate in environmental actions"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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 involved in the development of the reverse vending machine (RVM) and bottle deposit legislation to better understand the different historical trajectories empty beverage containers have taken across markets, including the U.S. The RVM began simply as a tool for grocers who had to handle empty refillable glass bottles, but has become a green machine to redeem the empty beverage container, helping both business and consumers participate in environmental actions"--Provided by publisher.

Print version record.

English.

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