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Composting utopia : experimental infrastructures for organics recycling in New York City / Guy Schaffer.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schaffer, Guy, author.
- Series:
- Activist studies of science & technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Compost--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York.
- Compost.
- Refuse and refuse disposal--New York (State)--New York--Citizen participation.
- Refuse and refuse disposal.
- Refuse and refuse disposal--Citizen participation.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2023]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from online title page (viewed on January 10, 2024).
- 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.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Schaffer, Guy. Composting utopia
- ISBN:
- 9781685750442
- 1685750443
- OCLC:
- 1407097391
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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