Clean cycles and safe final sinks

Clean cycles and safe final sinks.

Sustainable resource use requires “clean cycles” and safe “final sinks”

In order to fulfill the objectives of environmental protection, today's focus on quantitative recycling rates must be amended by a more qualitative approach. Because modern products represent a mix of numerous and sometimes hazardous substances, ways must be explored to remove detrimental substances during recycling and to establish "clean cycles". On the one hand, such a "clean cycle" strategy...

Driving Cycles Project Final Report

Clean and Dirty: Playing with Boundaries of Consumer’s Safe Havens

The marketplace, with its continuously increasing symbolic nature and infinitely many alternative consumption choices, poses a disorderly and threatening environment for consumers. This conceptual paper discusses the ways in which consumers magically create, eliminate, or shift many boundaries surrounding them through rituals and practices related with cleanliness in order to construct a safe ‘...

Detroit Project Safe Neighborhoods: Final Project Report