Recycling & Sustainability at GSU

The Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of all the main areas in the Earth Sciences. Understanding Earth's systems enables individuals to make informed choices about resource utilization, urban planning, public safety, and environmental stewardship.

This encyclopedia is the first major reference work in its field, and comprises three comprehensive volumes spanning the scope of sustainability from ecological concepts to financial concerns, to public policy and community action.

Presents a set of papers on the state of the art of knowledge and practices about the numerous challenges for cities, solutions and opportunities for the future related to the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection.

Presents simple ways to reduce waste in every aspect of your life, including: cleaning; meal plans; shopping; bathroom; recycling; compost, and more!

Your easy, practical resource on the journey to sustainable living. How to Go (Almost) Zero Waste is here to make sustainable living easier, with more than 150 different ways you can make more sustainable choices at home, school, work, and beyond.

Zero Waste Engineering discusses the basic concept of zero waste, ways to achieve zero waste, illegal dumpsites and its effects. It includes different wastes and the environmental problem associated with them. Readers can also learn about the best waste management practices and innovations around the globe, as well as the various challenges and opportunities in zero waste management for cities.

This updated edition includes new content on integrating 3D design into a zero waste process, additional coverage of the historical context of zero waste around the world, and expands on the related technique of subtraction cutting to make this the ultimate practical guide to sustainable fashion design.

Total Garbage is an investigative narrative by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who dives into the way that waste is embedded into our daily lives while examining how we can make meaningful changes to better our lives and create a cleaner, greener world.

On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. Examining the collaborative, sometimes scrappy institutional and community efforts to recuperate and redistribute food waste in Brussels, Belgium, Kelly Alexander reveals it is also an opportunity for new forms of sociality. Her study plays out across a diverse set of locations—including a food bank with ties to the EU, a social restaurant serving low-cost meals made from supermarket surplus by an emergent immigrant labor force, and a social inclusion program in an urban market with a "zero food waste" pop-up café. Alexander argues that these efforts, in concert with innovative policy, effectively recirculate wasted food to new publics and produce what she terms a "spectrum of edibility."