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Shifting the Burden of Recycling: Yale Journal Explores the State of Extended Producer Responsibility

Max Liboiron wrote 2 weeks ago: Via Reid Lifset, editor of Journal of Industrial Ecology (JIE): Over the past two decades government … more →

Tags: e-waste, Economics, Pollution, recycling, space/place, World, e-wate, electronic waste, Environment

The Politics of Measurement: Per Capita Waste and Previous Sewage Contamination4 comments

Max Liboiron wrote 1 month ago: Measurements are never mere faithful representations of nature, but have social and political origin … more →

Tags: activism, consumption, Disease, History, Methods, waste, wastefullness, denaturalize, frankland

How to picture two tons of waste? Trashy theaters of proof. 2 comments

Max Liboiron wrote 1 month ago: Basurama (trash-o-rama), a non profit organization based in Spain, is preparing a public waste audit … more →

Tags: art 2, Labor, waste, consumption, Methods, Conferences/Events, Trash, Media Lab Festival, basurama

Tsunami Debris and the Hope of Return

Max Liboiron wrote 1 month ago: Guest post by Kim DeWolff via her blog Plasticized. On a sunny spring morning we walk the Arahama co … more →

Tags: Environment, History, ocean gyres, space/place, World, disaster debris, Marine debris, Memorial, Memory

Scientists Call to Classify Plastic Waste as Hazardous Waste3 comments

Max Liboiron wrote 3 months ago: An international group of scientists, including the young Chelsea Rochman and Mark Anthony Browne fr … more →

Tags: activism, Body burdens, Cleaning Up, Environment, Government, Law, ocean gyres, Plastics, Pollution

The space/time of modern waste: disaster trash1 comment

Max Liboiron wrote 3 months ago: As Samantha MacBride notes, modern waste–that is, postindustrial waste and particularly waste … more →

Tags: Cleaning Up, Environment, Pollution, space/place, Urban, disaster, disaster debris, Hurricane Sandy, Modern Waste

Dumpster Diving2 comments

Max Liboiron wrote 3 months ago: Reblogged from our friends at the fantastic Material World Blog. Aliine Lotman (Anthro Dept, EHI, Ta … more →

Tags: Anthropology, consumption, History, Labor, Material Culture, sanitation, Urban, World

Article Alert- Binning, gifting and recovery: the conduits of disposal in household food consumption

Max Liboiron wrote 5 months ago: Environmental and Planning D has published a new article by David Evans entitled, “Binning, gi … more →

Tags: waste, consumption, reuse, Food, Material Culture, food waste, disposal, Sharing

Trash is a Wicked Problem

Max Liboiron wrote 5 months ago: One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. Waste is inherently ambivalent. It is b … more →

Tags: Environment, Methods, Value, waste, wastefullness, BLEMS, consensus, scoping problems, Solutions

Recycled Artist in Residency campaign coming to a close, but residencies to kick off in earnest

Max Liboiron wrote 5 months ago: RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residency) is a young yet accomplished project located within a constructio … more →

Tags: art 2, Material Culture, recycling, reuse, Art, artist residency, DIY, RAIR, rash

Article Alert- Garbage matters: Concepts in new geographies of waste1 comment

Max Liboiron wrote 6 months ago: Progress in Human Geography just published Sarah A. Moore’s “Garbage Matters: Concepts i … more →

Tags: Material Culture, Value, waste

This Friday in NYC: Fixer's Collective

Max Liboiron wrote 6 months ago: GET YOUR FIX! Come join us for our next fixing session… This Thursday, November 15th at Tony … more →

Tags: Brooklyn, consumption, Labor, maintenance work, reuse

Waste and Capitalism1 comment

Max Liboiron wrote 7 months ago: Last night’s presentation of Surveying Waste and Capital at Trade School (NYC), lead by CUNY d … more →

Tags: Class, consumption, DiRT 2, Economics, History, Urban, waste, capitalism, enclosure movement

Check out other blogs about waste

hojo5390 wrote 8 months ago: Please check out Discard Studies Their most recent blog examines waste as a part of the Occupy Movem … more →

Tags: Waste Findings, waste, Discard Studies, occupy, sanitation, Government, Urban, Cleaning Up, wastefullness

Tactics of Waste, Dirt and Discard in the Occupy Movement: A Photo Essay10 comments

Max Liboiron wrote 8 months ago: It has been one week since the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, September 17, 2012. In ce … more →

Tags: waste, sanitation, Government, Urban, Cleaning Up, wastefullness, DiRT 2, activism, Justice (EJ)

New Book- Economies of Recycling2 comments

Max Liboiron wrote 9 months ago: From the book release: “For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of e … more →

Tags: World, recycling, space/place, Justice (EJ), Recycling, global material chains, waste export, north-south, economies of recycling

Registration open for TRASH Postgraduate Conference at the University of Sussex

Max Liboiron wrote 9 months ago: TRASH is a one day postgraduate conference at the University of Sussex, and a curated evening of art … more →

Tags: Conferences/Events, Photography, Scholarly Opportunities, Art, Conference, Discard Studies, Sussex, Trash

Article Alert-Tactics of Waste, Dirt and Discard in the Occupy Movement1 comment

Max Liboiron wrote 10 months ago: Currently “Tactics of Waste, Dirt and Discard in the Occupy Movement” is published as a … more →

Tags: World, Labor, sanitation, Government, Urban, Parks, activism, Justice (EJ)

Communicating Eternity: A Typological Guide to America's Ephemeral Nuclear Infrastructure1 comment

Max Liboiron wrote 11 months ago: We all know waste doesn’t go “away.” We know about landfills, transfer stations, b … more →

Tags: art 2, Nuclear


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