waste management
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Waste pickers against pollution and public policy
Grettel Navas, CASAS’ member, has published this chapter with Francisco Venes in the book Contested Waste. Abstract: The favela of Cidade Estrutural in Brazil’s Federal District, home to a major landfill, has long relied on waste picking as a critical source of income for its inhabitants. However, the landfill poses severe health risks due to…
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Waste commons in motion
Daren Shi-Chi Leung, CASAS’ member, has just published this article in Cultural Studies journal. Abstract: In thinking biowaste at the heart of commoning, this article juxtaposes the alarming escalation of the global waste crisis with the quiet history of repurposing food waste as pigswills in Hong Kong. It develops the notion of waste commons, in…