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elsadevienne.bsky.social
Coastal Humanities meets Discard studies in this fantastic new ad for Count Binface. I am a happy historian.
#CoastalHistory #DiscardStudies #Waste
countbinface.bsky.social Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · Aug 6
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
August 6, 2026 at 10:27 AM
robynwoolston.bsky.social
#discardstudies #plasticwaste #garbage
yannoehl.bsky.social Yann Oehl @yannoehl.bsky.social · Apr 27
A Natural History of Garbage - Plastic Bags 09

#synthart #synthography #art #aiart #scientificillustration #naturalhistory #surrealism

Plates from the classic “A Visual Compendium of Pataphysical Natural History”
A natural history style illustration, created in the manner of a 19th-century botanical or zoological drawing, depicts a tree branch interspersed with various forms of plastic waste and garbage. A central branch with green leaves in the top right transitions to decaying leaves and plastic debris (bottles, can) towards the bottom left. The branch originates from the top center. Scientific style labels annotate the illustration.
April 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
drbibliomane.bsky.social
Prepping class & arrested by a detail in Kazuo Ishiguro's 2017 Nobel Prize lecture. From his 1st days in England, he recalls "hedgehogs . . . squashed by car wheels during the night, left in the morning dew, tucked neatly by the roadside, awaiting collection by the refuse men."🦔
#DiscardStudies
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Ian Parker Heath's review of Sophie Gee's "Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination," published in 2026 by @princetonupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #discardstudies #waste
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org
September 21, 2026 at 3:16 PM
rznagle.bsky.social
Honored to be part of a @streetsblognyc.bsky.social story about how cars make san worker labor more difficult & compromise DSNY's containerization plans. Thank you, @kevinduggan.bsky.social, for solid reporting. #nycsanitation #discardstudies #nyc
Cars Still Get in the Way of Containerized Trash Pickup - Streetsblog New York City
The Sanitation Department beat the rats, but its workers still have to take on parked cars.
nyc.streetsblog.org
December 3, 2024 at 7:10 PM
paulakolata.bsky.social
CFP WASTE & VALUE Conference
University of Copenhagen, 25-26 April 2024.

✉️ Please share in your networks
⏲️ Abstracts due on 1 Feb. 2024

See for details: ccrs.ku.dk/research/cen...

Organised by the Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Studies
#DiscardStudies #Waste #MaterialCulture #Value
September 27, 2023 at 11:42 AM
appliedanthro.bsky.social
Open Access from #HumanOrganization: Intersectionality & the Role of Place in Ethnographic Research on Informal Recyclers’ Livelihoods by Noleen R. Chikowore
doi.org/10.1080/0018...
@nrchikowore.bsky.social
#SfAA #InformalRecyclers #Intersectionality #Sustainability #DiscardStudies #CircularEconomy
May 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
kmoneill.bsky.social
Welcome to BlueSky everyone - really good to see new folks who aren't 'bots (!!). In the meantime, I am taking suggestions for a new grad course syllabus on Waste & Society #discardstudies #wastestudies
November 12, 2024 at 9:23 PM
sgallini.bsky.social
#discardStudies @carsoncenter.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM
carlzimring.bsky.social
Shellac's album To All Trains is out today. It has a song called "Scrappers" and the band pictures are really photographs of pickup trucks filled with scrap. The LP is made of PET, not PVC. This is a #discardstudies friendly record.

shellac.bandcamp.com/track/scrapp...
May 17, 2024 at 1:44 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
ICYMI:

Call for Papers: Cultures of Waste: Military and Corporate Complexes, Oxford Intersections

Abstract Deadline: 30 April 2026
Editors: Alex Souchen and Anne Berg

niche-canada.org/2025/12/12/c...

#envhist #envstudies #militarystudies #discardstudies #militaryhistory #waste
Call for Papers: Cultures of Waste: Military and Corporate Complexes, Oxford Intersections
Waste is not some inadvertent byproduct of war, but a central objective of its prosecution.
niche-canada.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
sarabpritchard.bsky.social
Hey, still need to submit fall book orders? (I KNOW)

Teaching #envhist #envhum #envstudies #histsci #histtech #histstm #sts #discardstudies ?

🤩Please consider #TransformingNight 🌌💡🌃 -- out 3 Aug, just in time for the new academic year!

uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Transforming Night
Who owns the night—and what is lost as we flood it with light, worldwide?Darkness has become legible—and contested. Blending archival narrative with on-t...
uwapress.uw.edu
June 26, 2026 at 4:28 PM
appliedanthro.bsky.social
Now available from #HumanOrganization: 'Discarding Well' After Disasters? Examination of Disaster Waste and Debris Management in the United States by A. Marissa Matsler, Keely B. Maxwell & Siena Henson doi.org/10.1080/0018...

@oh-the-urbanity.bsky.social
#discardstudies #waste #disaster #SfAA
December 27, 2024 at 2:59 PM
rznagle.bsky.social
Discouraging but unsurprising news from the BLS. #DiscardStudies #LaborsOfWaste
Waste and recycling collection was fourth deadliest occupation in 2023: BLS
The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows an increase in the rate of fatalities for the refuse and recyclable materials collection occupation. The total number of fatalities in MRFs also increa...
www.wastedive.com
December 22, 2024 at 12:43 AM
oh-the-urbanity.bsky.social
I decided I'm missing ye ole days at the other site, and want to get back into the fray in some way - hope to see more papers, conferences, theory in my feed 🤩 anybody #STS ing? #DiscardStudies ing?? #waste #naturebasedsolutions #NbS #greeninfra #disasterstudies #disasterwaste #environgovernance ??
November 4, 2024 at 8:51 PM
rznagle.bsky.social
What a fantastic trio of interviews! @nycsanitation.bsky.social, these guys do you proud. #dsny #nyc #BestJobEver #DiscardStudies
New York Sanitation Worker Life 1980s vs 90s vs Today | Experts By Decade | Daily Mail
YouTube video by Daily Mail Business
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May 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
rznagle.bsky.social
"Sell more. Waste more. Lie more. Hide more. Control more." The new @netflix.com documentary Buy Now is compelling & enraging (plus the super-creepy narration slaps). #DiscardStudies
Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2024 at 12:55 AM
craigborowiak.bsky.social
Along similar lines of thought, we have superb post-doc opportunity related to Discard Studies, Waste & Life at Haverford College.(Deadline Jan 9, 2025): apply.interfolio.com/158793
#discardstudies #waste&life
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December 10, 2024 at 10:54 PM
gabriellehecht.bsky.social
I’d been ignoring this whole hooha but then someone pointed this out:

The alleged purpose of the flight was “to figure out a way to harness the waste here and put it in space to make the Earth a better place.”

#DiscardStudies friends, please have at it!
Gayle King Responds to Backlash Over ‘Expensive’ Blue Origin Flight: ‘I Wish People Would Do More Due Diligence’
Gayle King has responded to backlash over her Blue Origin flight, which saw an all-female crew take an eight-minute trip into space.
variety.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
ianwilley.bsky.social
Ooh this is a fantastic little course!

In the video for this section, AI produced material is compared directly to highway garbage.

The spiritual digital twin of the plastic bottle.

Easily produced, hard to clean up.

thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-2-the...

#DiscardStudies
#WasteSeige
LESSON 2
The Nature of Bullshit
thebullshitmachines.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
rebecca-altman.bsky.social
cc @GeorgeMonbiot @monicazerowaste @AgentStiv @C_HaWQ @ColeRosengren @raulpacheco @rznagle @kmoneill2530 @DiscardStudies @driftersproject @plasticpieces @LegoLostAtSea
November 19, 2024 at 11:22 AM
robynwoolston.bsky.social
‘Smartprice’ (2012)
132,000 waste plastic knives & forks.

The original statement inc the following prompts:

> What’s smart about a disposable range of #plastic that lasts 300-500yrs?

> What price would you pay to preserve the ecosystem that supports us all?

#discardstudies #closedloop
Discarded plastic knives and forks form an interweaved sculptural arc-shape on the floor Close-up image of intersecting waste plastic knives and forks Mountains of discarded knives and forks form an arc on the gallery floor
May 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
carlzimring.bsky.social
Two of the slides from Raúl Pacheco-Vega's presentation at the 2022 #DiscardStudies conference reveal his curiosity and empathy.
A slide asking why the government of the city of Vancouver cooperates with recycling workers while the government of the city of Paris does not. A slide with tentative conclusions on why the governments of Vancouver and Paris treat informal waste pickers differently.
June 2, 2026 at 8:21 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
Call for Papers: Cultures of Waste: Military and Corporate Complexes, Oxford Intersections

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 April 2026
Editors: Alex Souchen and Anne Berg

niche-canada.org/2025/12/12/c...

#envhist #militaryhistory #militarystudies #envstudies #discardstudies #waste
Call for Papers: Cultures of Waste: Military and Corporate Complexes, Oxford Intersections
Waste is not some inadvertent byproduct of war, but a central objective of its prosecution.
niche-canada.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
bryonygillard.bsky.social
Calling researchers working on #wastewater #contamination, #multispecies sensing or porous body–environment relations. I’m developing practice-based research on #wastewater as relation + method. If u work in feminist/crip/anti-colonial ecologies or #discardstudies, let’s connect!
December 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM