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From salvage to recycling – new agendas or same old rubbish?
Author(s) -
Riley Mark
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2008.00791.x
Subject(s) - phenomenon , perspective (graphical) , antecedent (behavioral psychology) , duty , sociology , identity (music) , environmental ethics , political science , political economy , epistemology , aesthetics , law , social psychology , psychology , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science
Recent years have seen increased attention paid by geographers to the phenomenon of household waste recycling. Much of this attention by geographers has focused on contemporary recycling, especially contemporary policy and behaviour. This article takes a wider temporal perspective and considers the antecedent ‘National Salvage Campaign’ of the Second World War. It considers the conceptual lessons from this recycling campaign, drawing out the importance of themes of scale, relatedness, civic duty and positive identity. The article explores the socially constructed boundaries that attempt to find an ‘appropriate’ place for waste and how such boundaries are constantly reconsidered and redefined.