The 'New Industrial Philosophy': US corporate recycling in World War II

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 361-378

  Durr, Kenneth D ^a  

^a History Associates Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Efficiency; Recovery and reuse; Recycling; Scrap; Waste recovery: waste streams; World War II

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; RECOVERY; RECYCLING; SOLID WASTE; WAR; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947719928     PISSN: 14768917     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PIE.2006.011742     Document Type: Article

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