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A public sociology of waste /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hird, Myra J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2022.
Series:Public sociology series.
Subjects:
Refuse and refuse disposal > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Series
  • A Public Sociology of Waste
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • 1 The Public Problem of Waste
  • Introduction
  • The public sociology of waste
  • Studying waste issues and the public sociology of waste in brief
  • 2 Framing Waste
  • Introduction
  • The problem of amplification: framing waste as an individual responsibility
  • Framing waste as resource: now you see it, now you don't
  • Framing waste as a social justice issue
  • Framing waste as a public problem: resisting the techno-fix and reframing the amplification
  • 3 The Public Problem of Recycling
  • Introduction
  • Making consumers responsible for our global waste problem
  • Landfilling
  • Incineration
  • Recycling
  • Recycling's profit margin
  • The negative environmental impacts of using recycled materials
  • Recycling creates waste
  • A lot of materials cannot be recycled
  • Recycling does not decrease extraction
  • The environmental costs of transporting recycling
  • The low-value limit
  • Externalizing recycling costs to consumers
  • The moral economy of recycling as a public problem
  • 4 The Public Problem of Plastics
  • Introduction
  • The promise of plastics
  • The plastics tide turned
  • Oil by any other name: plastics recycling and the Green Energy Plan
  • Conclusions: framing plastics recycling as an environmental good
  • 5 The Public Problem of PPE Waste and Being Prepared
  • Introduction
  • Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war)
  • Properly masked and drenched in Purell
  • I've already been in this movie
  • Conclusion: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
  • 6 A Public Sociology of Waste
  • Introduction
  • 'The trouble with normal is it always gets worse'
  • Towards a public sociology of waste
  • Phase 1: placentas are waste
  • Phase 2: placentas are not waste
  • Phase 3: expertise and placenta rehabilitation
  • Phase 4: placental research as moral imperative
  • Appendix
  • Phase 1: placentas are waste
  • Phase 2: placentas are not waste
  • Phase 3: expertise and placenta rehabilitation
  • Phase 4: placental research as moral imperative
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Cover