In Carl Zimring's SUST 405 Production, Consumption, and Waste seminar, students analyze ways in which waste is created, defined, and managed in industrial society, and they create recommendations for improving problems with the waste stream. The seminar includes discussions, research, readings, and site visits. This week, the students visited the Sims Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in Sunset Park, where New York City's residential recyclables...