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Opposing Viewpoints

Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context)
Offers a range of perspectives on important issues to help critical-thinking skills using reference, periodical, news, primary and multimedia sources.

Recycling Topic Page: Opposing Viewpoints
An overview essay, viewpoint essays, academic journal articles, news coverage, infographics and more.

Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale OneFile)
Targeted collection of journals and reference books covering environmental issues policies from scientific, government and industry perspectives.
Environmental Studies (Gale in Context)
From climate change to automobile emissions, today’s environmental issues determine the destiny of tomorrow’s world. Gale In Context: Environmental Studies provides users with comprehensive information, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand important topics that affect people around the world. Explore topics and events within Earth systems, global change, pollution, populations, and more.

Recycling Topic Page: Gale in Context - Environmental Studies
"Recycling waste is not a new idea. Throughout history, people have disposed garbage in myriad ways. They fed household garbage to domestic animals. Scavengers gleaned the waste stream for usable items that could be fixed, then sold or traded for other goods and services."

Is this the end of recycling?: The Atlantic
"Americans are consuming more and more stuff. Now that other countries won’t take our papers and plastics, they’re ending up in the trash. "
How the 1970's created recycling as we know it: Smthsoninan Magazine
"The environmental movement of the 1970s can be credited with directly shaping American recycling programs–although concern about the post-war disposable culture goes back almost to its beginning."
When Did Americans Start Recycling?: History.com
"In the 1800s, there were no blue recycling bins, no sorting, no recycling trucks rumbling down the alley. Recycling as we know it didn’t exist. But people were way better at it."
Seven things you didn't know about recycling: National Geographic
"Recycling is a complicated system dictated by market demand, price determinations, local regulations, the success of which is contingent upon everyone, from the product-designer, to the trash-thrower, to the waste collector, to the recycling factory worker. We consumers play a much more critical role than we might imagine-- "

Cape Cod Times
Full-text coverage of the Cape Cod Times from November 1998 to present.