In: Resources series
Intro -- Front Matter -- Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 The Global Political Economy of Waste -- The Rise of the Global Waste Economy -- Themes of the Book -- Perspectives on Wastes -- Outline of the Book -- The Wider Significance of Wastes -- Notes -- 2 Understanding Wastes -- What are Wastes? -- Tracking Wastes' Journeys: Streams and Objects -- "Where there's Muck, there's Brass": Perspectives on the Value of Wastes -- The Non-Material Value of Wastes -- Wastes as Contingent Resources -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 Waste Work -- Waste Work and Livelihoods -- The Formal Waste Economy -- The Informal Waste Economy (Economies) -- Conflict on the Global Resource Frontier -- Trends in Global Waste Work -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 4 Discarded Electronics -- Electronic Wastes: What, Why, How Much? -- E-Wastes' Promise: Extractive Value … -- … and its Perils: Magnified Risks -- Does Urban Mining Achieve Its Potential? -- On the Global Resource Frontier: The International Trade in E-Wastes -- How Much E-Waste Crosses Borders? -- Trade Routes -- Networks and Relationships -- Governing Global Production, Disposal, and Flows of Discarded Electronics -- Repair, Reuse, or Disposal? Building the "Informal Green Economy" -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 5 Food Waste -- Food Waste and Food Loss -- Food Waste on the Political Agenda -- A Lengthy History -- Causes and Regional Variations -- Food Waste Disposal -- #nofoodwaste:: Activism and Policy Entrepreneurs -- Food Waste Governance -- The View from the South -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 6 Plastic Scrap -- The Global Reach of Plastics and Plastic Waste -- Ocean Plastics -- China and the World's Plastic Scrap -- The Challenges of Plastics Recycling -- China and the Scrap Trade -- New Directions for Global Plastics Governance -- Single-Use Consumer Plastics.
In: Resources series
The global political economy of waste -- Understanding wastes -- Waste work -- Discarded electronics -- Food waste -- Plastic scrap.
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