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Waste: The Basics answers the questions: why are we facing a global waste crisis, and how can we effectively solve it? The book identifies the most common types of waste, its major producers, how we manage waste locally, regionally and globally, and why this management is leading to more waste.

Written in a highly accessible style, the book begins with our own everyday mundane experiences of creating waste (those objects or materials we toss in the garbage or recycling bin) and shows how these practices are connected to a global system that manages wastes ineffectively. Drawing on a wealth of historical documents, and empirical research, Hird unpacks the complex relationship that waste has with global structures of capitalism, neoliberalism, international trade, poverty, racialized and gendered relations, and social injustice. Armed with the basic facts about our âwaste-makerâ global society, the author concludes that only by understanding waste as a byproduct of how so

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 3 November 2025
      ISBN-13 9781032504247
      978-1032504247
      ISBN-10 1032504242
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      Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Waste management

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      Book Synopsis

      Waste: The Basics answers the questions: why are we facing a global waste crisis, and how can we effectively solve it? The book identifies the most common types of waste, its major producers, how we manage waste locally, regionally and globally, and why this management is leading to more waste.

      Written in a highly accessible style, the book begins with our own everyday mundane experiences of creating waste (those objects or materials we toss in the garbage or recycling bin) and shows how these practices are connected to a global system that manages wastes ineffectively. Drawing on a wealth of historical documents, and empirical research, Hird unpacks the complex relationship that waste has with global structures of capitalism, neoliberalism, international trade, poverty, racialized and gendered relations, and social injustice. Armed with the basic facts about our âwaste-makerâ global society, the author concludes that only by understanding waste as a byproduct of how so

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