CREATORS AND ENTREPRENURS
Precious Plastic – A Dutch-founded open-source project enabling communities and entrepreneurs worldwide to build their own plastic-recycling machines and create products from local waste, fostering grassroots upcycling.
https://www.preciousplastic.com/
Rethinking The World’s Waste: Circular Economy | Climate For Change: Closing The Loop | Ep 1/2 https://youtu.be/0EfsD7xNLIo Ep 2/2 https://youtu.be/E_FGmc3EYGw
COUNTRIES
OTHER
Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice
Stephanie Foote, Elizabeth Mazzolini(2012). Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice. MIT Press https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9227.001.0001
The Wasteoscene – Stories from the Global Dump
In the Wasteocene Marco Armiero argues that:
- Humans may live in the Anthropocene, but this does not affect all in the same way. How would the Anthropocene look if, instead of searching its traces in the geosphere, researchers would look for them in the organosphere, in the ecologies of humans in their entanglements with the environment? Looking at this embodied stratigraphy of power and toxicity, more than the Anthropocene, we will discover the Wasteocene. The imposition of wasting relationships on subaltern human and more-than-human communities implies the construction of toxic ecologies made of contaminating substances and narratives. While official accounts have systematically erased any trace of those wasting relationships, another kind of narrative has been written in flesh, blood, and cells. Traveling between Naples (Italy) and Agbogbloshie (Ghana), science fiction and epidemic outbreaks, this Element will take the readers into the bowels of the Wasteocene, but it will also indicate the commoning practices which are dismantling it.
In the Further reading section below you can download and read the whole book if you want explore this topic more in-depth.
Further reading, learning and references
Armiero, M. (2021). Wasteocene: stories from the global dump. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dewan, C. (2024). Polluted Transformations of Fluid Commons in Bangladesh: Shipbreaking and ‘Enclosure by Contamination’. Social Analysis: Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, Vol. 68, no 2, p. 44-64. https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-551360