Composting utopia : experimental infrastructures for organics recycling in New York City / Guy Schaffer.

Composting utopia : experimental infrastructures for organics recycling in New York City / Guy Schaffer.

9781685750442 electronic book
1685750443 electronic book
9781625347695 paperback
9781625347701 hardcover

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2023]

English

1 online resource.

HD4484.N7 S33 2023

631.8/75097471

"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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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