#Discardstudies

kelly macalpine

kellymacalpine

IntensifyingPlasticWorldsHow does inviting hundreds of plastic bottles into the early childhood classroom disrupt neoliberal & neocolonial everyday processes of plastic waste(ing)? #livingwithplastic @DiscardStudies #Discard2020 @vpacin

Rebecca Altman

rebecca_altman

W I S H C Y C L I N G a neologism, a thread. AKA "aspirational #recycling" of materials that have no shot of being recovered. I first noticed

Sam Shorey

SamShorey

Waste workers—like cleaners and recycling sorters—are mostly absent in U.S. news media narratives about automated technologies in sanitation and disposal fields.1/10 #Discard2020 in collaboration with @perhaxis for @DiscardStudies. For

😷 wash hands & keep resisting

mikoalino

In the age of plastic, corporations are finding ways to increase profit from the Sachet Economy, at the expense of low-income communities and cash-strapped governments that suffer from the impacts

Sneha Sharma

sneha_sharma12

Modern municipal waste disposal is not limited to removal of garbage but involves a strategic churning out of unwanted people. This is seen through a massive fire (2016) managed by

A.R.E. Taylor

alexretaylor

ᴡʜʏ ᴅɪꜱᴄᴀʀᴅ ꜱᴛᴜᴅɪᴇꜱ ɴᴇᴇᴅꜱ ᴛᴏ ɢᴇᴛ ɪᴛꜱ ʜᴇᴀᴅ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʟᴏᴜᴅ: When we talk about digital discards we should also be talking about cloud computing. In this thread for the

Melanie Valencia

melvalvel

#Women in informal recycling have formed networks of material and social provisioning to ensure their livelihoods & everyone else’s in the process. Their practices are an inspiration for a socially

judyannet

judyannet1

(1/n) Had a local org ask me about my ethics & extractive research yesterday & I couldn't be more proud seeing orgs raise issues around accountability & research ethics. (I

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