Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Everything Is Trash -- Rationale for a Book on Trash Transport -- Outline of the Book -- Chapter 1 All Garbage Is Local: Trash Management in the United States -- Environmental Effects of MSW -- The Special Problems of Electronic Equipment -- Federalism and MSW Disposal in the United States -- Trash on the Move: The Rise of the Mega-Landfill -- The Dormant Commerce Clause Question -- Determining the Public Interest -- Chapter 2 Waste Not, Want Not: Are Americans the World's Premier Waste Makers? -- Does Prosperity Make Us Better Environmentalists? -- The Relationship between Affluence and Trash Generation -- Background Data and Associated Uncertainties -- Waste-Generation and Management Patterns I: International Variation -- Waste-Generation and Management Patterns II: Historical and Projected Trends -- Why Europeans and the Japanese Make Less Trash Than Americans -- Factor I: Americans as Consumer "Addicts" -- Factor II: How Waste Management Policies in the EU and in Japan Discourage Trash Generation and Movement -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Costs and Benefits of Interstate Trash Transport: Landfill Capacity, Schools, and Environmental Justice -- Benefits and Burdens of Municipal Solid Waste -- Race, Income, and Solid Waste -- Information, Voice, and Consent -- Lessons from the Environmental Justice Literature -- Chapter 4 Regulatory and Legislative Efforts to Limit the Movement of Trash -- State and Local Attempts to Limit the Flow of Trash -- Congressional Bills to Allow Constraints on the Flow of Trash -- Bills to Erect Interstate Barriers to the Flow of Trash -- Trash, Pollution, Commerce, and Public Education Funding -- Chapter 5 Solving the Genuine Problems of Long-Distance Trash Transport -- Why Interstate Trash Transport Per Se Is Not the Problem.

Policy Solution I: Waste Diversion and Reduction -- Policy Solution II: Environmental Justice and the Proximity Principle -- Taking Responsibility for Trash -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.