Concept information
Preferred term
recycling in history
Definition
- Basic human needs for food and shelter have long been accompanied by questions of what to do with the remains of gathering, hunting, farming, and sustaining lives. As individuals organized into families, tribes, and, eventually, cities and nation-states, the commodities and resulting refuse required scaled management. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage; Recycling in History]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/recycling_in_history
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