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- Publisher
- Inderscience Publishers
- Copyright
- Copyright © Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. All rights reserved
- ISSN
- 1476-8917
- eISSN
- 1478-8764
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Abstract
This study examines how agricultural science, from the mid-19th century to present day, has maintained that urban technology should be designed in response to agricultural interests. Recycling of urban waste was regarded in the mid-19th century as a way of augmenting the fertility of the soil, while at the same time solving the sanitary problems of urban communities. By about 1900 this agrarian-scientific interest had cooled and water closets and non-processing sewerage systems eventually superseded recycling. In recent decades the idea of 'ecocyclical society' has achieved a broad impact in the bid to create a sustainable society. One finds that with recycling there has always been a gap between theory and practise, in that abstract arguments concerning the ecocycle and calculated benefits has run into technical and economic complications at the implementation stage.
Journal
Progress in Industrial Ecology, an International Journal – Inderscience Publishers
Published: Jan 1, 2006