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Dumping in Dixie is a 1990 book by the American professor, author, activist, and environmental sociologist Robert D. Bullard. [1] Bullard spotlights the quintessence of the economic, social, and psychological consequences induced by the siting of noxious facilities in mobilizing the African American community. [1]
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine is a nonfiction book by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins.The book is an ethnography of waste management in the West Bank under the constraints of Israeli occupation, arguing that the Oslo Accords led to the abnormal presence and flow of waste for Palestinians, which Stamatopoulou-Robbins refers to as "waste siege".
A garbage landslide [1] is a man-made event that occurs when poorly managed garbage mounds at landfills collapse with similar energy to natural landslides.These kinds of slides can be catastrophic as they sometimes occur near communities of people, often being triggered by weather or human interaction. [1]
America’s landfills—and the environmental havoc they create—are sizable. There are roughly 1,200 landfills currently in operation, and on average, each one takes up about 600 acres of land ...
The hidden globe is a mercenary world order in which the power to make and shape law is bought, sold, hacked, reshaped, deterritorialized, reterritorialized, transplanted, and reimagined.
A spray-painted sign above a sewer in Colorado Springs, Colorado, warning people to not pollute the local stream by dumping.. Environmental harmful product dumping (“environmental dumping”) is the practice of transfrontier shipment of waste (household waste, industrial/nuclear waste, etc.) from one country to another.
What makes a LULU such as this unique is that they cause displacement, whereas a landfill, dump, roads, or prisons simply discourage home-buyers from entering the area and keep home prices low. High-end health food stores such as Whole Foods causes displacement by attracting high-earning home buyers into the area, causing rents and home prices ...
A new report from CalPIRG reveals that that almost no Amazon packaging gets recycled. Instead, it ends up in a landfill. ... it ends up in a landfill. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium ...