Discard studies have demonstrated that waste is more than just a symptom of an all-too-
human demand for meaning or a merely technical problem for sanitary engineers and public …

In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific
research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that …

An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding
certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerging field that looks at waste …

What constitutes “human reproduction” is under negotiation as its biology, social nature, and
cultural valences are increasingly perceived as bound up in environmental issues. This …

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-
date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they …

The continued expansion of plastics production all over the world entrenches modern
societies and life styles deeper in the dependence on fossil resources. This research note …

Along with seeking to eliminate the inhumane conditions and slaughter involved in animal
protein production, alternative protein companies aspire to ameliorate its environmental …

Names: Gille, Zsuzsa, editor.| Lepawsky, Josh, 1972-editor. Title: The Routledge handbook
of waste studies/edited by Zsuzsa Gille and Josh Lepawsky. Description: Abingdon, Oxon; …

The early twentieth-century industrialization of food production and processing generated
large volumes of processing waste. Following the fate of waste products cast off from the …

How do we practically deal with the waste produced by industrial processes? Until now this
question has overwhelmingly been answered in one way: through the deployment of …