Open AccessEveryone's Trash: Recycling in China
Author(s) -
STEVENS MOLLY
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
ethnographic praxis in industry conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1559-8918
pISSN - 1559-890X
DOI - 10.1111/1559-8918.01010
Subject(s) - reuse , value (mathematics) , china , business , waste management , environmental economics , computer science , engineering , political science , economics , law , machine learning
Are we really connected to the steps and act of recycling and reuse? Is the modern American vision for recycling too clean and removed from the reality of our waste? Images are a series of observations about a single example of community, value‐based recycling from Shanghai. The images challenge us to reflect on what we can learn from other approaches.