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Municipal solid waste management on the South coastline of the Caspian Sea (Golestan, Mazandaran, and Guilan provinces of Iran).(Library Corner)(Preventing Waste at the Source and The Waste Crisis: Landfills, Incinerators, and the Search for a Sustainable Future)(Book review)

Article from: Journal of Environmental Health Article date: December 1, 2007

Preventing Waste at the Source

Norman J. Crampton (1999)

Corporations throughout the nation are learning to tame solid waste by improving their management of materials. The basic idea of this book can be summed up in one sentence: Waste prevention will yield a much higher rate of return on investment than most other investments a company makes. Preventing Waste at the Source offers a detailed look inside companies across the United States whose comparatively simple and inexpensive waste prevention initiatives ...

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