Crisis of Waste?

This book undertakes a measured assessment of the historical evidence on waste, suggesting that waste is absolutely central to industrial and social change. This volume offers crucial insight into how important our wastes really are and moves us forward in the contemporary ‘crisis’ to a less crisis-ridden future. This book takes a measured look at the 'crisis of waste' in modern society and it does so historically, sociologically and critically. It tells stories about past and present ‘crises’ of waste and puts them in their appropriate social and industrial contexts. From Charles Dickens to Don DeLillo, from the internal combustion engine to fish fingers, from kitchen grease to the Tour de France this book digs deep into society’s dust piles and emerges with untold treasures of the imagination.