Guy Schaffer

Composting Utopia

Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with community composters and microhaulers in New York City, alongside the rollout of the city’s curbside organics collection system, this book describes how local, grassroots organisations intervened in the city’s waste system, enacting change and presenting an alternative vision of the composting city.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781625347695
• ISBN-10: 1625347693
• Artikelnr.: 67741019

Autorenporträt

Guy Schaffer is lecturer in science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures
* List of Abbreviations
* List of Compost Terms
* Preface
* INTRODUCTION
* Compost and Hope
* CHAPTER 1: A Genealogy of Municipal Organics Recycling
* CHAPTER 2: The NYC Curbside Organics Collection Pilot: Building the
Market for Organics Recycling
* CHAPTER 3: The NYC Compost Project: Locally Meaningful Composting in
Partnership with DSNY
* CHAPTER 4
* BK ROT: Composting Neoliberal Waste Management to Model Just
Sustainability
* CONCLUSION
* Lessons from the Compost Heap
* References
* Index