{"id":2808,"date":"2025-04-01T11:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/recycle2024\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2025-04-01T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:47:23","slug":"distancing-and-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/recycle2024\/2025\/04\/01\/distancing-and-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Distancing and recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Questions for this week:<\/strong> What political functions do waste infrastructures serve? How does \u2018distancing\u2019 function? Do we accept this general argument? What actually happens with \u2018recycling?\u2019 Can recycling ever deliver on its promises? How have policies enacted by China in the last few years affected the global waste\/recycling trade?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Readings:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Calvino, Italo. \u201cContinuous Cities I.\u201d In <em>Invisible Cities<\/em>. 1st Harvest\/HBJ ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, 114-6.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clapp, Jennifer. \u201cThe Distancing of Waste: Overconsumption in a Global Economy.\u201d In <em>Confronting Consumption<\/em>, edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2002, 155\u201376.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Princen, Thomas. \u201cDistancing: Consumption and the Severing of Feedback.\u201d In <em>Confronting Consumption<\/em>, edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2002, 103\u201332.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>National Association for PET Container Resources. \u201cReport on Postconsumer PET Container Recycling Activity in 2017,\u201d November 15, 2018. https:\/\/napcor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/NAPCOR_2017RateReport_FINAL_rev.pdf. (Focus primarily on the graphs on pages 4 and 13)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MacBride, Samantha. \u201cDoes Recycling Actually Conserve or Preserve Things?\u201d <em>Discard Studies<\/em> (blog), February 11, 2019. https:\/\/discardstudies.com\/2019\/02\/11\/12755\/.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Katz, Cheryl. \u201cPiling Up: How China\u2019s Ban on Importing Waste Has Stalled Global Recycling.\u201d <em>Yale E360<\/em>. Accessed December 30, 2019. https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/features\/piling-up-how-chinas-ban-on-importing-waste-has-stalled-global-recycling.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Schlossberg, Tala, and Nayeema Raza. \u201cOpinion | The Great Recycling Con.\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em> , December 9, 2019, sec. Opinion. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/09\/opinion\/recycling-myths.html<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>John Oliver on plastics: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fiu9GSOmt8E<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions for this week: What political functions do waste infrastructures serve? How does \u2018distancing\u2019 function? Do we accept this general argument? What actually happens with \u2018recycling?\u2019 Can recycling ever deliver on its promises? How have policies enacted by China in the last few years affected the global waste\/recycling trade? 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