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Waste: The Basics: The Basics

Autor Myra J. Hird
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 mar 2025
Waste: The Basics answers the questions: why are we facing a global waste crisis, and how can we effectively solve it? The book identifies the most common types of waste, its major producers, how we manage waste locally, regionally and globally, and why this management is leading to more waste.
Written in a highly accessible style, the book begins with our own everyday mundane experiences of creating waste (those objects or materials we toss in the garbage or recycling bin) and shows how these practices are connected to a global system that manages wastes ineffectively. Drawing on a wealth of historical documents, and empirical research, Hird unpacks the complex relationship that waste has with global structures of capitalism, neoliberalism, international trade, poverty, racialized and gendered relations, and social injustice. Armed with the basic facts about our ‘waste-maker’ global society, the author concludes that only by understanding waste as a byproduct of how society is organized around extraction, production, and consumption may we solve our increasing waste crisis through refusal, reduction, reuse, and re-orienting our lives to fit planetary sustainability boundaries.
Waste is written for students and general readers interested in waste as a human health and environmental issue. It is for anyone curious about where objects really go once we put it in the trash or recycling bin.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032504247
ISBN-10: 1032504242
Pagini: 188
Ilustrații: 6
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria The Basics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

General, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Cuprins

1. Defining Waste  2. Waste in Historical Context  3. Understanding Waste  4. Managing Waste  5. Contextualizing Waste  6. Reducing Waste        
 

Notă biografică

Myra J. Hird is a Full Professor, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Queen’s National Scholar in the School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University, Canada. Hird is Director of Waste Flows, an interdisciplinary research project focused on waste as a global scientific-technical and socio-ethical issue.  Hird has published 13 books and over 90 articles and book chapters on a diversity of topics relating to science studies. Hird’s 12th book, written with Hillary Predko, is called Extracting Reconciliation and is published by Routledge. Hird represented Canada at the G7 Science Meeting on Plastic Pollution in Paris, France.

Descriere

This book identifies the most common types of waste, its major producers, how we manage waste locally, regionally and globally, and why this management is leading to more waste. It is written for students and general readers interested in waste as a human health and environmental issue.