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Plastic bottles, cardboard boxes, aluminium cans... we all get through a lot of rubbish, but do you really know what happens after you put it in the bin? Are yo

This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material ma

An ethnography of Uruguayan waste-pickers that reconceptualizes rubbish as a form of modern-day commons.

"Get up close and personal with our world of waste! From the ins and outs of recycling, to the nitty-gritty of landfills and dumps, to how creative people find