Gidwani, Vinay and Corwin, Julia Eleanor 
ORCID: 0000-0002-6460-2129
(2017)
Governance of waste.
Economic and Political Weekly, 52 (31).
ISSN 0012-9976
Abstract
Well-versed in the production of waste, corporate capital has not generally focused on capitalising on waste. The discards of consumption, previously approached broadly as mere waste, have recently found rebirth in an increasingly corporate waste market in India. Ranging from contracts for waste collection and incineration-plant installation to sales of recyclables, formal businesses are entering the business of revaluing waste, often to the detriment of India’s already existing informal waste sector that has long conducted its own waste-based businesses. This new, increasingly corporate, business of waste is intimately connected to a new waste governance regime in India. Concerns regarding two symbolically significant waste streams, municipal solid waste and electronic waste, illuminate waste beyond its “management,” and demonstrate its embeddedness in matters of consumerism, informal-sector livelihoods, and urban ecology.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2019 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Geography & Environment |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD2329 Industrialization |
| Date Deposited: | 29 May 2019 15:21 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 05:32 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/100809 |
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