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Getting a job in sanitation / by Meyer, Susan,1986-(CARDINAL)500686;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-77) and index.The trash trade -- Education and testing requirements -- The job search -- The interview process -- Learning the ropes.There are many viable, secure, and rewarding careers available to those with little or no postsecondary education. Sanitation is one of those industries, and readers will be introduced to it in full here. Revealing the wide range of activities within the industry--going well beyond garbage pick-up and hauling to recycling, snow removal, storm cleanup, and even disaster relief efforts--readers will gain a new respect for and greater understanding of sanitation work. Essential information regarding testing and training requirements, job search and interview strategies, public vs. private employment, workplace expectations, etiquette, and benefits is also provided. In addition to opening an exciting career path to those who may feel they have few options, this resource also meets the career preparedness aspect of the Common Core Curriculum Standards for the reading of informational texts.9Y
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Refuse and refuse disposal.; Refuse disposal industry; Sanitation workers.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Junkyard planet : travels in the billion-dollar trash trade / by Minter, Adam,1970-(CARDINAL)403568;
When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday’s newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don’t want and turn it into something you can’t wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter—veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner—travels deeply into a vast, often hidden, multibillion-dollar industry that’s transforming our economy and environment. Minter takes us from back-alley Chinese computer recycling operations to high-tech facilities capable of processing a jumbo jet’s worth of recyclable trash every day. Along the way, we meet an unforgettable cast of characters who've figured out how to build fortunes from what we throw away: Leonard Fritz, a young boy "grubbing" in Detroit's city dumps in the 1930s; Johnson Zeng, a former plastics engineer roaming America in search of scrap; and Homer Lai, an unassuming barber turned scrap titan in Qingyuan, China. Junkyard Planet reveals how “going green” usually means making money—and why that’s often the most sustainable choice, even when the recycling methods aren’t pretty.
Subjects: Refuse disposal industry.; Refuse and refuse disposal.; Scrap materials.; Recycling (Waste, etc.);
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 14
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Trashed [videorecording] by Vangelis.cmp; Brady, Candida.proausdrt; Irons, Jeremy,1948-nrt; Ogilvy, Titus.pro; Blenheim Films.;
Music composed and performed by Vangelis ; editors, Neal Davies, James Coward, Kate Coggins, Jamie Trevill ; director of photography, Sean Bobbitt.With: Jeremy Irons.Looks at the risks to the food chain and environment through pollution of our air, land, and sea by waste.12A, suitable only for persons of 12 years and over.DVD; NTSC; regions 1, 2; (16x9) aspect ratio; 5.1.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Educational films.; Environmental films.; Nonfiction films.; Refuse and refuse disposal.; Refuse disposal industry.; Sanitary landfills; Waste minimization.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Waste management : an American corporate success story / by Jacobson, Timothy C.,1948-(CARDINAL)185247;
Subjects: Waste Management Inc.; Refuse disposal industry;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Legal challenges to solid-waste flow-control ordinances / by Kim, Anne.(CARDINAL)209260; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Institute of Government.(CARDINAL)158318;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Refuse and refuse disposal; Refuse disposal industry;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Waste wars : the wild afterlife of your trash / by Clapp, Alexander,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-373) and index.Introduction: mayhem in Mesopotamia. Part one: toxic tropics. Banana Republic ; The chemical century ; Cash for trash ; Debt and development ; Merchants of disease ; Guns and germs ; Trash ash odyssey ; Rising up ; American exceptionalism ; The waste trade strikes back -- Part two: e-waste on the odaw. State and slum ; To the quays of tema ; Treasure ; Logging on ; Technological tinkering ; The flexible mine ; Start-up cesspools ; A new agbogbloshie? ; Going fishing ; Magical things -- Part three: Aegean abomination. Global junk heap ; Shipping out ; Into the heart of anatolia ; Deadly business ; Scrap shepherds ; Scrap nation ; At Europe's edge ; Greeks bearing gifts ; Coming home -- Part four: Pacific plastic. A long journey ; Plastification ; The greatest miracle yet ; One-man multinational ; Plastic China ; Mad scramble ; A trash chief ; A trash scion ; Back to the Pacific -- Conclusion: whither waste? "A globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting, this is the first major book to expose the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade. Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing. Disputes about what to do with the millions of tons of garbage generated every day have given rise to waste wars waged almost everywhere you look. Some are border skirmishes. Others hustle trash across thousands of miles and multiple oceans. But no matter the scale, one thing is true about almost all of them: few people have any idea they're happening. Journalist Alexander Clapp spent two years roaming five continents to report deep inside the world of Javanese recycling gangsters, cruise ship dismantlers in the Aegean, Tanzanian plastic pickers, whistle-blowing environmentalists throughout the jungles of Guatemala, and a community of Ghanaian boys who burn Western cellphones and televisions for cents an hour, to tell readers what he has figured out: While some trash gets tossed onto roadsides or buried underground, much of it actually lives a secret hot potato second life, getting shipped, sold, re-sold, or smuggled from one country to another, often with devastating consequences for the poorest nations of the world. Waste Wars is a jaw-dropping exposé of how and why, for the last forty years, our garbage -- the stuff we deem so worthless we think nothing of throwing it away -- has spawned a massive, globe-spanning, multi-billion-dollar economy, one that offloads our consumption footprints onto distant continents, pristine landscapes, and unsuspecting populations. If the handling of our trash reveals deeper truths about our Western society, what does the globalized business of garbage say about our world today? And what does it say about us?"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Refuse and refuse disposal.; Refuse disposal industry.; Refuse and refuse disposal; Environmental responsibility; Environmental justice.; Recycling (Waste, etc.);
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 23
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Industrial water use in North Carolina / by Walker, William R.(CARDINAL)125365; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Institute of Government.(CARDINAL)158318;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Industrial water supply; Refuse and refuse disposal;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Waste management functions of state agencies and the existing mechanisms of interdepartmental coordination / by North Carolina.Technical Committee on Hazardous Waste.(CARDINAL)197984;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Hazardous waste management industry; Refuse and refuse disposal;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Down in the dumps [videorecording] ; and, Back to the dumps / by Bason, John.; McDonald, Kathleen.(CARDINAL)150529; University of North Carolina Center for Public Television.(CARDINAL)180965;
Program. 1. Down in the dumps [broadcast in 1989] (30 min.) -- Program. 2. Back to the dumps [broadcast in 1991] (30 min.).Produced by John Bason and Kathleen McDonald ; edited by Jeff Anderson ; executive producer, Richard W. Hatch ; Stateline producer, Ted Harrison ; director, David Earnhardt.Presenters, John Bason and Kathleen McDonald.Examines solid waste disposal in North Carolina in 1989 and a follow-up in 1991.Adults.VHS.
Subjects: Recycling (Waste, etc.); Refuse and refuse disposal; Refuse disposal industry; Waste disposal sites;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Disposal and long-term storage of hazardous waste. by North Carolina.Governor's Waste Management Board.(CARDINAL)170752;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Refuse and refuse disposal; Hazardous waste management industry;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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