Weinberg / Pellow / Schnaiberg Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2389-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weinberg, Adam S.

Pellow, David N.

Schnaiberg, Allan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Chapter One: Urban Recycling: An Empirical Test of Sustainable Community Development Proposals 3

Sustainable Community Development 4

Recycling as a Case Study in Sustainable Community Development 7

The Rise of Recycling: "Why Waste a Resource?" 9

Contemporary Recycling Practices 22

The Chicago Region as a locale for Examining Recycling and Sustainable Community Development 27

Chapter Two: The Challenge to Achieve Sustainable Community Development: A Theoretical Framework 30

The Treadmill of Production as a Modern Political-Economic Model 30

Conflict, Power, and Dialectics: A Political Economic Perspective 35

Allocating Scarcity: A Central Parameter 40

Political Consciousness in the Managed Scarcity Synthesis 43

The Treadmill of Production and Recycling: Overt and Covert Conflicts 43

Limitations of Our Analysis 47

Chapter Three: Chicago's Municipally Based Recycling Program: Origins and Outcomes of a Corporate-Centered Approach 50

Who Is Riding the Tiger? The Alliance between the City of Chicago and Waste Management, Incorporated 50

Promises and Pitfalls of the Blue Bag Program 54

Early Problems with the Blue Bag: Miscalculating Start-up Costs and Recovery Rates 58

Occupational Safety Issues: Challenges and Responses 66

Reclaiming the MRRFs: Chicago's Attempt to Regain Control 72

Conclusion: The Blue Bag Program and the Three Es of Sustainable Community Development 74

Chapter Four: Community-Based Recycling: The Struggles of a Social Movement 78

Community-Based Recycling Centers 78

The Model for Community-Based Recycling Centers: The Resource Center 78

Replicating the Resource Center: Uptown Recycling, Incorporated 83

Limitations of the Community-Based Model 90

Social Movement Struggles in a Global Marketplace: The Demise of Community-Based Recycling? 94

Moving toward the Three Es: Assessing the Achievements of the Community-Based Centers 100

Community-Based Sustainable Development Enterprises: "Doing Good but Not Doing Well" 104

Chapter Five: Industrial Recycling Zones and Parks: Creating Alternative Recycling Models 107

Environmental Movements and Industrial Ecology: The Logic of Recycling Parks and Recycling Zones 107

Promises in Maywood 110

Reviving West Garfield Park: The Bethel New Life Story 118

Resistance to Innovations: DuPage County and Gary, Indiana 120

Planning for Industrial Recycling Zones: Is Ecological Modernization in Our Future? 124

Chapter Six: Social Linkage Programs: Recycling Practices in Evanston 132

Finding Alternatives: The Road to Locating the Three Es 132

Recycling Working as a Social Linkage: The Rise of the PIC Program in Evanston 132

Delinking the Evanston Program: The New "Bottom Line" Orientation to Local Recycling 142

Understanding the Dimensions of Variability in Recycling Programs 149

Searching for Sustainable Development: Do Technology and Scale Matter? 151

Chapter Seven: The Treadmill of Production: Toward a Political-Economic Grounding of Sustainable Community Development 156

Revisiting the Treadmill of Production 156

The Globalizing Treadmill 158

The State's Ambivalent Role in Managing the Treadmill 162

Grounding Sustainable Community Development in the Treadmill of Production 164

Conclusion: Relationships in the Treadmill 172

Chapter Eight: The Search for Sustainable Community Development: Final Notes and Thoughts 176

The Political Economy of Solid Waste Management 176

Critical Social Science: Power, Education, Community, and Politics 179

The Economic Geography of Waste: Generalizing beyond Chicago and beyond Recycling 195

Final Reflections 199

References 203

Index 217

Über Autor(innen)

Adam S. Weinberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colgate University and coauthor of Local Environmental Struggles. He has advised many communities, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies on sustainable development. David N. Pellow is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has published widely on environmental racism and justice, participated in several federal initiatives, and served on the board of many nonprofit organizations. Allan Schnaiberg is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and a faculty associate of its Institute for Policy Research. His numerous publications include The Environment: From Surplus to Scarcity and Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict.