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guestauth0r , July 14th, 2021
By MC Forelle This article is based off of the work recently published by the author in New Media and Society, titled “Copyright and the modern car: Colliding…
guestauth0r , March 9th, 2020
Agbogbloshie is a part of an emergent globalised scrap economy that links peripheral markets to global metal flows. In this post, Dagna Rams argues for the need to…
guestauth0r , November 18th, 2019
Discard studies spoke with three leading waste researchers about the biggest myths of the circular economy.
Josh Lepawsky , March 18th, 2019
The US ‘tech sector’ has been a major source of toxicant releases. These interactive maps show the chemical legacy of electronic manufacturing in the US.
guestauth0r , November 13th, 2017
This review of a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology titled, “Exploring the Circular Economy” is a virtual tour of circular economy definitions and current directions….
guestauth0r , October 30th, 2017
In an economic sense, it is usually municipal and state governments that account for the cost of damage waste causes to local environments when deciding how to deal…
guestauth0r , July 17th, 2017
Remember, this is not waste that was dumped directly by human hands. It was washed here on ocean currents, meaning that this is not just about one beach…
Max Liboiron , June 5th, 2017
If I could only recommend one text in discard studies, it would be Recycling Reconsidered by Samantha MacBride (2011, MIT Press).
guestauth0r , May 29th, 2017
“Viewed as a concept by some, a framework by others, the CE is an alternative to a traditional take-make-dispose linear economy. A CE aims to keep products, components,…
guestauth0r , May 22nd, 2017
Our research into the issue of corporate social responsibility and wastage of fresh fruit and vegetables has identified a number of tensions and contradictions, despite leading Australian supermarkets…
guestauth0r , March 27th, 2017
A walk down this little street in Peru’s capital provides a glimpse into an understated network that quietly plays a critical role in reducing the environmental impacts of…
guestauth0r , December 22nd, 2016
Stopping the pipeline in one spot, after all, won’t stop oil altogether. Climate change, however, is a threat most of all to Indigenous peoples around the world.
Max Liboiron , October 24th, 2016
Over 43 million gallons of milk has been dumped into manure pits and fields the first eight months of 2016. There is too much of it. Yet milk…
Max Liboiron , August 17th, 2016
This special issue aims to present the best of ongoing interdisciplinary scholarship on historical and contemporary processes involved in the flow of secondhand objects and materials, their transforma…
guestauth0r , June 6th, 2016
By Alex V. Barnard “Seeing all the waste exposes very clearly the priorities in our society, that making a profit is more important than feeding people, than preserving the…
guestauth0r , March 28th, 2016
El Cambalache, a moneyless economy project in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, is screening a documentary we created!
guestauth0r , February 29th, 2016
This session invites contributions that explore themes related to ideas of recalibrated material flows and their socio-political and geographical implications.
Josh Lepawsky , January 4th, 2016
The lead researcher on a seminal work mapping the international traffic of e-waste responds to criticism of his research on material flows.
Max Liboiron , November 2nd, 2015
What is the circular economy, exactly? Is it capitalism with better accounting? Is it about scaling up recycling and reuse? Is it about consuming less, and producing less,…
Max Liboiron , October 3rd, 2015
The Ocean Conservatory would like to burn 80% of the waste in coastal Asia with US-made incinerators. According to a wide range of experts and grassroots organizations from…
Max Liboiron , September 29th, 2015
On July 1 New York City banned disposable Styrofoam containers. First they were sued over the decision, and last week the ban was overturned. What is the big…
guestauth0r , September 23rd, 2015
The leveraging of the temporal lag between the developed and the developing world by these local street vendors enables them to generate additional value from the discarded. Second-hand…
guestauth0r , September 21st, 2015
Drawing from long-term ethnographic research on a 25-year-old medical aid program linking the U.S. and Madagascar, I use this brief essay to trace how Malagasy and American participants…