Recycling war machines: Canadian munitions disposal, reverse logistics, and economic recovery after World War II

Souchen, Alex

doi:10.1080/00076791.2020.1796976

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“…Both Thorsheim (2020) and Souchen (2020) show that waste reclamation and reprocessing paved the way to post-war economies. This dimension will need further historical analysis.…”

Section: A Transnational Perspective On Waste Salvage and World War Ii: The Contributions Of The Volumementioning

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Rethinking waste within business history: A transnational perspective on waste recycling in World War II

Denton

Weber

2021

Business History

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Waste and its reuse have constituted an important field of economic activity for most of human history, including modern times. While the collected articles of this special issue exemplify the significance that waste salvage had in mobilising resources in Europe, Asia, and North America in World War II, this introduction situates these cases in a longterm perspective. It explores the continuities and ruptures inside the structures, markets, and actors of the salvage business from late nineteenth century waste reclamation, including the sanitary era of municipal waste disposal, to the more recent era of 'green' recycling. It argues that we need to rethink waste's role within business history by delineating four basic characteristics of the waste business: the moral economies that govern wasting and reusing; the informality of the trade and its operations; the trans-sectorality of the waste streams; and the reverse logistics of the waste salvage trade. Introduction: waste economies and times of warFor most of human history, waste and its reuse have been an important field of economic activity, even if this field became largely invisible in an era of modernisation, industrialisation, and mass production. The articles of this special issue, along with our introduction, highlight the immense scope and significance of the 'business of waste ' (Stokes et al., 2013), but more importantly, they carve out some of the specific characteristics of what it means to deal and trade with waste. They do so by taking the extreme example of World War II as a vantage point: a period when warring states restructured their economies, enforced salvage drives, and began to interfere directly or indirectly with the existent structures, actors, networks, and material flows of the traditional waste and recycling business -referred to at the time as waste salvage or the scrap trade. We argue that the war period can serve as an entry point for historians to uncover otherwise largely hidden actors, structures, and channels of the waste trade because the wartime economy brought them to light; the salvage business underwent substantial transformations in belligerent states which left behind manifold traces in trade statistics, business records, and archives.

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“…Both Thorsheim (2020) and Souchen (2020) show that waste reclamation and reprocessing paved the way to post-war economies. This dimension will need further historical analysis.…”

Section: A Transnational Perspective On Waste Salvage and World War Ii: The Contributions Of The Volumementioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking waste within business history: A transnational perspective on waste recycling in World War II

Denton

Weber

2021

Business History

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The Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage—Achievements and Present Challenges

Browne¹,

Raff²

2022

International Law of Underwater Cultural Heritage

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Impact of munitions corrosion processes on groundwater contamination and techniques for their safe and cost-effective disposal: A case study of a village

Semenenkо¹,

Trehubenko²,

Onofriichuk³

et al. 2022

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The relevance of the study lies in the fact that the ammunition that has entered the groundwater (deeper than 250 m), as a result of its disposal, poses serious threats to the entire Donetsk region water area. The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of munitions corrosion on the aquatic environment and to consider the most effective and environmentally friendly methods of disposal. To conduct the research following scientific methods were used: methods of analysis, deduction, synthesis, and formalization method. It was found that each method of ammunition disposal led to a negative impact on the environment both in the short and long term. The literature of recent developments in munitions corrosion and munitions recycling was analyzed. It was summarized that there was an urgent need to introduce a system for cleaning up contaminated territories, to take control over the implementation of legislative environmental standards, to use new biological methods for elimination of the consequences of the impact of ammunition on the ecosystem of the region, and to switch to more environmentally friendly types of weapons. The practical value of the article is in search of ways to prevent an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe in the war zone in the East of Ukraine

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Recycling war machines: Canadian munitions disposal, reverse logistics, and economic recovery after World War II

Cited by 3 publications

References 20 publications

Rethinking waste within business history: A transnational perspective on waste recycling in World War II

Rethinking waste within business history: A transnational perspective on waste recycling in World War II

The Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage—Achievements and Present Challenges

Impact of munitions corrosion processes on groundwater contamination and techniques for their safe and cost-effective disposal: A case study of a village

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