Packard, Vance

The postwar economic boom brought the automobile within the reach of more people than ever before but the American automobile culture was attacked in the late 1950s by Vance Packard and in 1965 by Ralph Nader in a book called Unsafe at any Speed. Growing safety concerns led to the passing of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1968. 

Sometimes, however, an environmental warning has an unexpected source, a fiction or nonfiction writer who, for reasons of his or her own, chooses to produce a work about a new threat to the environment. This was the situation when Vance Packard wrote his 1959 best-seller The Waste Makers. Packard s book took as its subject planned obsolescence, the policy adopted by many manufacturers to build the products they made to be out of date in a predictable period. 

An Overview of Solid Wastes Municipal Solid Wastes Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Landhlls Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Incineration Reducing Municipal Solid Wastes Recycling Vance Packard (1914-1996)... 

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