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Gay Hawkins explores the ethical significance of waste in everyday life_from the broadest conceptions of waste and loss to how the environmental movement has affected the ways we think about garbage. Do we feel virtuous for reusing plastic bags and disdain those who don't? At what point does personal waste become public responsibility? How does this 'public conscience' affect policy? Placing these ideas into historical, social, and cultural perspective, this thoughtful book seeks ways to change ecologically destructive practices without recourse to guilt, moralism, or despair.

Waste minimization. --- Environmental responsibility. --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Déchets --- Responsabilité environnementale --- Réduction --- Elimination --- Waste minimization --- Environmental responsibility --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Déchets --- Responsabilité environnementale --- Réduction --- Discarded materials --- Disposal of refuse --- Garbage --- Household waste --- Household wastes --- Rubbish --- Solid waste management --- Trash --- Waste disposal --- Waste management --- Wastes, Household --- Ecological accountability --- Ecological responsibility --- Environmental accountability --- Minimization of waste --- Reduction of waste --- Waste reduction --- Sanitation --- Factory and trade waste --- Pollution --- Pollution control industry --- Salvage (Waste, etc.) --- Street cleaning --- Waste products --- Environmental ethics --- Responsibility --- Conservation of natural resources --- Pollution prevention --- Environmental aspects --- Refuse and refuse disposal - Moral and ethical aspects