Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development

Weinberg, Adam S.; Pellow, David N.; Schnaiberg, Allan

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“…Recycling was conceived of as a non-profit local effort that could bring members of a community together-to foster person-to-person communication and provide a mechanism for the development of trust and cooperation among citizens in a community. In urban areas, recycling programs were also viewed as opportunities to provide less well-off individuals with jobs and decrease the social distance between the inner city and surrounding suburbs (Weinberg, Pellow & Schnaiberg, 2000). Finally, recycling was seen as having the potential to build communities that were more self-sufficient.…”

Section: Solid Waste Field Centralization the Resource Recovery Frammentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result, the number of landfills in the U.S. decreased from over 16,000 sites in 1979 to around 5,500 by 1988 (Brown, Flavin and Postel, 1990). Instead of the labor-intensive and often ad hoc nature of non-profit voluntary recycling efforts, the for-profit model promoted the creation of curbside collection organized by extant solid waste haulers that would rely on free household labor to clean and sort waste, lowering the overall labor input and cost of the recycling system (Weinberg, Pellow & Schnaiberg, 2000). While nonprofit recyclers emphasized community-building and their participation in the community, the forprofit model facilitated a reinterpretation of households as service recipients as opposed to collaborators or stakeholders.…”

Section: The Deinstitutionalization Of the Resource Recovery Frame Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social movements, field frames and industry emergence: a cultural-political perspective on US recycling

Lounsbury¹,

Ventresca²,

Hirsch³

2003

Socio-Economic Review

666

497

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This article examines how social movements contribute to institutional change and the creation of new industries. We build on current efforts to bridge institutional and social movement perspectives in sociology and develop the concept of field frame to study how industries are shaped by social structures of meanings and resources that underpin and stabilize practices and social organization. Drawing on the case of how non-profit recyclers and the recycling social movement enabled the rise of a for-profit recycling industry, we show that movements can help to transform extant socioeconomic practices and enable new kinds of industry development by engaging in efforts that lead to the deinstitutionalization of field frames. 3 SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, FIELD FRAMES AND INDUSTRY EMERGENCE:A CULTURAL-POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON U.S. RECYCLING "We have to realize that there is a certain ironic, wry success in that nonprofits all over the country have test-piloted it [recycling] so successfully that big capital has come in and taken over" (quoted in Weinberg, Pellow & Schnaiberg, 2000: 95).How do marginal practices become the foundation for the emergence of new economic institutions such as industries? While the study of how industries and markets emerge has received little attention in economics (Granovetter & Swedberg, 2001), sociologists have directed increasing attention to such questions over the past couple of decades (e.g. Hollingsworth & Boyer, 1997;Fligstein, 2001;White, 2002). Sociological approaches to industry emergence are varied, but have highlighted the importance of studying how economic institutions are embedded in wider fields of interaction that include professional and trade associations, governmental agencies, and other nonprofit and for-profit actors (e.g. DiMaggio & Powell, 1983;Campbell, Hollingsworth & Lindberg, 1991;Schneiberg, 1999). Extant constructionist accounts, rooted in organizational and economic sociology, focus on tracking the processes and mechanisms by which economic activities and practices take shape as an industry as a result of the development of a supporting organizational infrastructure, the creation of symbolic boundaries that define appropriate industry activities, and the attainment of legitimacy (Aldrich & Fiol, 1994;Granovetter & McGuire, 1998;Ventresca & Porac, forthcoming). However, these accounts tend to neglect how the fate of industries is bound up in broader field-level political struggles over meanings and resources (Zelizer, 1979;Stryker, 1994;Schneiberg and Bartley, 2001;Lounsbury and Ventresca, 2002). We develop the case of the rise of the recycling industry in the U.S. solid waste field to contribute to the development of a broader and more dynamic approach to socioeconomics that takes the study of cultural processes seriously.We build on recent efforts to bridge ideas in institutional analysis and social movement theory in sociology (e.g. Clemens, 1997;Rao, 1998;Strang & Soule, 1998), and introduce the 4 concept of "field frame" to focus attention on how cultura...

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Section: Solid Waste Field Centralization the Resource Recovery Frammentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Deinstitutionalization Of the Resource Recovery Frame Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social movements, field frames and industry emergence: a cultural-political perspective on US recycling

Lounsbury¹,

Ventresca²,

Hirsch³

2003

Socio-Economic Review

666

497

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“…Now, material recovery has become a commodity-based, profitdriven industry where the dynamics of cooperation and competition play a large role [5].…”

Section: Linear Value Creation To Cycle Value Creationmentioning

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Conceptual Framework for Near-to-site Waste Cycle Design

Steingrímsson¹,

Seliger²

2014

Procedia CIRP

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The manufacturing industry is under pressure to reduce the emission of solid and liquid refuse as well as waste gas from plants into the environment. Technologies that reutilise these wastes can be referred to as cycle technologies. To assess which of these technologies to adopt is a challenge, since hardly any methods to evaluate the sustainability benefits exist. A conceptual framework for near-to-site variations of cycle technological design has been developed. Suitable structure and characteristics for initial technology assessment, specifically for these cycle technologies are presented. This approach is validated by a first promising example of crustacean shells reutilisation.

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“…Repair efforts may be for the original owners or for reuse by someone else. Chicago's Creative Reuse Warehouse is a good model for demonstrating how such items as "used office furniture and supplies, salvaged lumber, and broken bikes are turned into valuable assets for communities, schools, and the general public" (Weinberg et al 2000). A Green Jobs Corps can run both recycling and repair efforts.…”

Section: Public Employment and Environmental Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Jobs: Public Service Employment and Environmental Sustainability

Forstater

2006

Challenge

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Urban Recycling and the Search for Sustainable Community Development

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Social movements, field frames and industry emergence: a cultural-political perspective on US recycling

Social movements, field frames and industry emergence: a cultural-political perspective on US recycling

Conceptual Framework for Near-to-site Waste Cycle Design

Green Jobs: Public Service Employment and Environmental Sustainability

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