Samantha MacBride: Recycling reconsidered: the present failure and future promise of environmental action in the United States

Carvill, Sarah

doi:10.1007/s13412-012-0081-0

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“…To move away from economies of waste harm requires reconceptualizing our relationship to plastic. The rapid rise of this material after WWII was due to its flexible, convenient, applicable nature [15]. Yet, a reframing of this material is needed to incorporate the multidimensional harm it has shown to generate over the last several decades, as scientists as well as the general public are seeing the impacts more clearly.…”

Section: Plastic As a Materials Of Cautionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Waste making is a symptom of complex global production processes, with impacts that fall on the local civic population and ultimately the local environment. MacBride [15] remarks on these processes, "Garbage is the material artifact of a great range of steps prior to wasting. Its existence signals larger, more diffuse problems.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Its existence signals larger, more diffuse problems. In it, we see the last vestige of havoc wreaked by materials as they flow globally" [15]. 'Distancing' is the key assumption that underlies all current linear waste management plans.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Responsible Materials Stewardship: Rethinking Waste Management Globally in Consideration of Social and Ecological Externalities and Increasing Waste Generation

Conlon

2024

Adv Environ Eng Res

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Unsustainable material extraction, use and disposal - the ‘take-make-waste’ model - places communities globally in a state of social inequalities and environmental conflict (the slow violence of polluting the air, water, and soil we all depend). Current waste management practices are designed for efficiency of disposal but do not address increasing waste generation and waste externalities. The present global waste situation is magnified by exponential increases in plastic production; misconceptions of recycling; and confusion with 21st Century materials. Addressing these imbalances requires cities to have a new understanding of waste-making processes and practices, reconceptualized as responsible materials stewardship. Responsible materials stewardship is an integrative new system for ‘re-evaluating-re-designing-restoring,’ in line with circular economy, and designed for resource monitoring; overall waste minimization and recovery; reducing materials of harm; and supporting production and use of materials that steward ecological regeneration.

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Section: Plastic As a Materials Of Cautionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%