Treasure from trash: how mining waste can be mined a second time
Mines typically follow a set path from prospecting, to development, to extraction and finally closure as the finite resources are exhausted. But does that really need to be…
Mines typically follow a set path from prospecting, to development, to extraction and finally closure as the finite resources are exhausted. But does that really need to be…
International Conference, 2 – 3 December 2016 Heinrich-Boell-Foundation (HBS), Schumannstr. 8, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
Since 2009, news outlets across China have repeated the mantra that “two-thirds of China’s cities face besiegement by garbage”—constituting a national crisis. Included is Kunming, the burgeoning capit…
The purpose of this two-day transdisciplinary workshop is to gather scholars from the social sciences and the humanities together with a few practitioners to critically discuss the places,…
Since discard studies doesn’t have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a monthly table of contents alert for articles, reports, and books in the field.…
The technosphere refers to a new layer on the planet made up of “the interlinked set of communication, transportation, bureaucratic and other systems that act to metabolize fossil…
Learn about water testing, particularly for lead, including what people need to know about testing, what to look for, who should do the testing, and how testing should…
We invite you to join us for the first Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) graduate student symposium at the University of Michigan, Ann…
Since discard studies doesn’t have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the field.…
As stewards of a culture’s collective knowledge, libraries and archives are facing the realities of cataclysmic environmental change with a dawning awareness of its unique implications for their…
The nineteenth-century critique of the emerging “metabolic rift” between city sewers and country farms lamented that with the rise of the sanitary metropolis and the emergence of input-intensive…
Since discard studies doesn’t have it’s own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books from all over …
By Aman Luthra, Johns Hopkins University § If you happen to frequent the broad tree-lined avenues of Chanakyapuri—an upscale neighborhood in New Delhi, India dominated by diplomatic missions and…
Calling reuse “recycling” a common and seemingly simple mistake, yet it is extremely important to differentiate between the two for political and environmental reasons.
What policies and technologies make waste systems friendly or unfriendly towards informal recycling? Join us on the 22nd of April at the Design & The City Conference in…
This session invites papers exploring ethical considerations of transboundary waste movement.
A waste audit is an analysis of a localized waste stream from your building, household, classroom, town or business. It can identify what types of waste that local…
Mining, as the human activity responsible for some of the planet’s most dramatic landscape transformations and the largest proportion of total industrial waste flows, is a particularly salient…
The Department of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland is looking to fill a fully funded Masters position working at the intersection of social and natural sciences on…
The following ten articles and one book are recent publications from diverse disciplines, but they all relate to the study of waste, pollution, and externalities. Cooper, D. R.,…
OpenHour, an online monthly seminar about DIY monitoring tools, will be hosting “Landfills: Mapping and Monitoring.” Monday 2/1 1pm EST.
Uneven Earth, a website that hosts articles, interviews, and other information about environmental and social justice conflicts around the world, is offering a writing grant “to fund two…
From the specific case of marine plastics, Liboiron’s paper offers a more general point that those of us who study discards need to remember to take seriously: How…
This volume seeks to provide novel insights into ecological and environmental issues by drawing on specifically transgender perspectives. Deadline for abstracts: March 1, 2016.