The Story of Stuff - Annie Leonard [213]
now estimates that forty times more waste is created upstream than by households, previous estimates have been much higher. The seventy-times figure used in The Story of Stuff film came from Brenda Platt, a waste analyst with the Washington, D.C., based Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Her report (with co-author Neil Seldman) Wasting and Recycling in the United States 2000 stated that “for every ton of municipal discards wasted, about 71 tons of manufacturing, mining, oil and gas exploration, agricultural, coal combustion, and other discards are produced.” Platt based this calculation on data in the Office of Technology Assessment report Managing Industrial Solid Wastes from Manufacturing, Mining, Oil and Gas Production, and Utility Coal Combustion (OTA-BP-O-82), February 1992, pp. 7, 10. Either way, the point is that there’s a whole lot more waste being made beyond the Stuff we haul to our curbs each week, so if we really want to make a dent in our waste production, we need to be looking upstream to where the bulk of it is generated.
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Introduction
A Word About Words
Key to Recurring Graphics
Chapter 1: Extraction
Chapter 2: Production
Chapter 3: Distribution
Chapter 4: Consumption
Chapter 5: Disposal
Epilogue: Writing the New Story
Appendix 1: Examples of Promising Policies, Reforms, and Laws
Appendix 2: Recommended Individual Actions
Appendix 3: Sample Letter to PVC Retailers, Manufacturers, and Lobbyists
Endnotes
Acknowledgments
How We Made This Book
Index
About the Authors
Footnotes
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