The topic of 'consumption' is currently most often reviled or ignored.
Our popular discussions of consumption are rarely satisfying because we lack
the right language and paradigms for correctly and properly coming
to terms with it.
The brief paper Celebrating Consumption is intended to make the case for
one way to understand the process, that will enable us to improve it.
We need to have several ways of coming to understand consumption, and this
describes only one.
Celebrating Consumption is available in:
An ongoing problem in the field of solid waste management is the lack of consistency and consensus in terms and definitions. This is particularly a problem for source reduction of solid waste, and the underlying assumptions commonly used in solid waste is a great barrier to accomplishing significant source reduction. The Future of "Waste": Etymological and Conceptual Foundations of Solid Waste Management (by Reuben Deumling) explores the paradigms underlying four approaches to waste management and materials use, and assesses the implications for terms and definitions, and for source reduction.
The Future of "Waste" ... is available in:
Note that the HTML version does not have internal links to help navigate it. The Word and PDF versions are 32 pages long.
Last Modified: December 1, 1998, by Bruce Nordman