Joe Stafford-Veale
HSTR 101E
October 25
Essay Proposal
Topic: Recycling
Research Question: How was recycling first introduced into society and how did it evolve and
become so significant?
Bibliography
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Siu, Helen F. "Recycling Tradition: Culture, History, and Political Economy in the Chrysanthemum
Festivals of South China." Comparative Studies in Society and History 32, no. 4 (January 1990): 76594.
Berg, Anne. ‘’ The Nazi rag-pickers and their wine: the politics of waste and recycling in Nazi
Germany.’’ Journal of Social History, no. 4 (November 2015) :446-472.
Goodship, Vannessa. “Plastic Recycling.” Science Progress 90, no. 4 (October 2007): 245–68
(So sorry for the late submission! I accidently handed this into another class!)