Waste of the World

Nicky Gregson is Emerita Professor in Human Geography at Durham University.

• 1. The Global Waste Problem and How to Think About It: Or, How to Understand the ‘Too Much Waste’ Problem2. Discard, Social Order and Social Life: Or, Discard is Foundational to Understanding Waste3. Consumption, Consumer Practices and Consumer Discard: Or, How Consumer Discard Relates to Economies4. Conduits, Value Regimes and Valuation: Or, Following Consumers’ Discarded Things5. Recommodifying Discard: Or, the Challenges of Turning Discard into an Economic Good6. Waste, Money and Finance: Or, How Turning Discard into Waste Turns Waste into an Energy Resource and an Asset7. Future Directions: Or, Rewiring Waste through the Three Ds (Decarbonization, Digital and Discard)

"This book doesn’t end on a recipe for solutions; it does something much more important. It identifies three major challenges in the form of research questions, with the answers to these questions forming the beginnings of solutions that are appropriately scaled to the problems of waste writ large." Discard Studies