Crossing the Threshold: Municipal Waste Policy and Household Waste Generation
By H. Bulkeley, N. Gregson. 2009
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This paper connects research on home-based consumption with research on waste policy and governance. We argue that, in order to meet the enhanced goals of waste reduction specified in Waste Strategy for England 2007, UK municipal waste policy needs a far closer engagement with the household, the primary unit of consumption. Opening-up the ‘black box’ of the household, we show why the potential for achieving enhanced rates of materials diversion through recycling is limited in certain neighbourhoods. We demonstrate the potential for furthering waste reduction through the intensification of existing practices with the ‘arts of transience’, and by engaging with the lumpiness of household-waste generation. The paper considers the policy implications of these findings and offers a number of suggestions as to how such insights might be taken up within UK municipal waste policy.
Subfields: Geography, Planning and Development, Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies
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- Food waste drivers in Europe, from identification to possible interventions (2016, background): “, in case of guest visits) have higher probabilities of being wasted [14,104,156,168,179]; when consumers, for some reason, try new food products or food they do not know (e.”
- Actor Networks, Modes of Production, and Waste Regimes: Reassembling the Macro-Social (2010, methodology): “…of these novel approaches focused on microlevel practices, such as waste work (Reno, 2008), practices of divestment (Gregson et al, 2007a), managing absence (Hetherington, 2004), arts of transience (Bulkeley and Gregson, 2009), waste ethics (Hawkins, 2007), or practices of reuse (O'Brien, 1999).”
- Household-level dynamics of food waste production and related beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours in Guelph, Ontario. (2015, background): “As argued by Bulkeley and Gregson (2009), ‘‘. . .waste policy has to cross the threshold, to open up the black box that is the household and engage with household practices, rather than continue with furthering end-of-pipe approaches which impose rafts of new practices on households from the…”