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Waste of the World: Consumption, Economies and the Making of the Global Waste Problem [Paperback / softback]

(Durham University, UK)
  • Format: Paperback / softback, 254 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm, Not illustrated
  • Pub. Date: 09-May-2023
  • Publisher: Bristol University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1529232449
  • ISBN-13: 9781529232448
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  • Format: Paperback / softback, 254 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm, Not illustrated
  • Pub. Date: 09-May-2023
  • Publisher: Bristol University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1529232449
  • ISBN-13: 9781529232448
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Despite frequent claims that waste is being reduced, consumer-reliant economies, everyday consumption and the waste industry continue to produce and demand more waste.



Combining a lucid style with robust empirical and theoretical research, this book examines the root causes of the global waste problem, rather than simply the symptoms. It challenges existing waste policies, highlighting what needs to change if we are to get serious in tackling this global problem. It concludes with policy implications for shifting waste from an end-of-pipe concern to being at the heart of the debate over decarbonization.

Reviews

"This book doesnt end on a recipe for solutions; it does something much more important. It identifies three major challenges in the form of research questions, with the answers to these questions forming the beginnings of solutions that are appropriately scaled to the problems of waste writ large." Discard Studies "Providing a sweeping and detailed assessment of the global waste problem, this book speaks brilliantly to multiple audiences - from everyday consumers, to policymakers, to CEOs, activists and academics." Josh Lepawsky, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador Nicky Gregson persuasively argues that we need to reorient our understanding away from consumer responsibility to consumption as a global set of practices that structure our relations to the world. Myra Hird, Queens University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Acknowledgements iv
Preface vii
1 The Global Waste Problem and How to Think about It Or, how to understand the `too much waste' problem
1(30)
2 Discard, Social Order and Social Life Or, discard is foundational to understanding waste
31(21)
3 Consumption, Consumer Practices and Consumer Discard Or, how consumer discard relates to economies
52(24)
4 Conduits, Value Regimes and Valuation Or, following consumers' discarded things
76(28)
5 Recommodifying Discard Or, the challenges of turning discard into an economic good
104(29)
6 Waste, Money and Finance Or, how turning discard into waste turns waste into an energy resource and an asset
133(31)
7 Future Directions Or, rewiring waste through the three Ds (decarbonization, digital and discard)
164(16)
Notes 180(23)
References 203(24)
Index 227
Nicky Gregson is Emerita Professor in Human Geography at Durham University.