Carl Abraham Zimring is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

and professor at the

Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ...

, known for his work o
discard studies
With William Rathje, he edited ''The Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage'' (Sage Publications, 2012). His books include ''Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America'' (Rutgers University Press, 2005), ''Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism'' (New York: New York University Press, 2015), and ''Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017).

External links

Carl A. Zimring's Home Page.

Blog.
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