Our research into the issue of corporate social responsibility and wastage of fresh fruit and vegetables has identified a number of tensions and contradictions, despite leading Australian supermarkets’ zero food waste targets.
What is the role of software in planned obsolescence and waste? It may play a greater role than hardware…
Repair and waste share many points of convergence from an analytical perspective (as well as a practical one!). Continent has just released a special issue all about repair:
Richard S. Newman’s recent book offers a new history of Love Canal, the neighborhood near Niagara Falls that became notoriously contaminated by buried chemical waste. As residents became aware of the leaching chemicals and associated health risks, they organized to investigate the problems and demand government action.
We invite papers from multiple disciplines to engage with the topics of waste, wastage, wasting, waste-ability, rescue and salvage in relation to space and place.
(English below, Spanish here, Portuguese here) Colloque international Sciences, savoirs et pratiques des déchets. Dialogues entre mondes européens et américains 23 et 24 Novembre 2017 A l’Institut des Amériques (IdA), Paris 60, boulevard du Lycée, 8ème étage – 92170 Vanves Ce colloque s’intéresse aux déchets comme objets de sciences, de savoirs et de pratiques. En […]
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Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the field.
This panel seeks to both critically and productively engage with long-standing and emergent efforts to prevent waste through repair, care and reuse.
The program is up and registration is open for Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Orders, which will be held at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ from April 6-9, 2017. Program: http://themaintainers.org/maintainers-ii-program/ Registration, Hotel, Travel: http://themaintainers.org/2017-conference-registrationhoteltravel/ The program features ~71 presentations spread across 18 panels, including 2 opening plenary panels on Thursday afternoon, […]
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There are two new open-access journals on waste: Worldwide Waste Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Journal of Waste Management and Environmental Issues
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