Composting utopia : experimental infrastructures for organics recycling in New York City / Guy Schaffer.
2023
HD4484.N7 S33 2023
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Title
Composting utopia : experimental infrastructures for organics recycling in New York City / Guy Schaffer.
Author
ISBN
9781685750442 electronic book
1685750443 electronic book
9781625347695 paperback
9781625347701 hardcover
1685750443 electronic book
9781625347695 paperback
9781625347701 hardcover
Published
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
HD4484.N7 S33 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
631.8/75097471
Summary
"New Yorkers generate millions of tons of trash annually, which, through the magic of infrastructure and one of the largest waste management systems in the world, disappears from city sidewalks each night. Under pressure from environmentalists, activists, policymakers, and industry, the New York City Department of Sanitation started exploring ways to divert organic material from the waste stream, and in 2013, launched its composting pilot program. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork with community composters and microhaulers in New York City, alongside the rollout of the city's curbside organics collection system, Composting Utopia describes how local, grassroots organizations intervened in the city's waste system, enacting change and presenting an alternative vision of the composting city. As Guy Shaffer argues, movement-driven infrastructure projects develop new tools for organizing the world, give young people of color agency over urban design, and promote sustainability and justice"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2016, under the title: Building utopia with tomorrow's trash: formal and informal infrastructures for organics recycling in New York City.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 13, 2024).
Series
Activist studies of science & technology
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Table of Contents
Compost and hope
A genealogy of municipal organics recycling
The NYC Curbside Organics Collection Pilot
The NYC Compost Project
BK ROT
Lessons from the compost heap.
A genealogy of municipal organics recycling
The NYC Curbside Organics Collection Pilot
The NYC Compost Project
BK ROT
Lessons from the compost heap.