Beschreibung
| Zusammenfassung: | New, Now, Next. Consumers' ever growing appetite to acquire new products and their short courtship with them has kept manufacturers busy not only expending resources at an alarming rate, but also depleting these resources and giving rise to waste and pollution at a correspondingly increasing and disturbing rate. Traditional manufacturing methods that use mainly virgin materials to produce new products and dispose of the used products at the end of their lives are quickly becoming unsustainable. In addition, regulations that require manufacturers to take back products and dispose of them res.
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| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xxv, 413 pages) : illustrations |
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| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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| ISBN: | 1439863083
9781439863084
9781280122514
128012251X |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |
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