In the reading this week, Moore maps out several different ways of conceptualizing waste, many of which we have already tacitly been using. Choose a waste object, and use at least three of her conceptualizations of waste to explain how this waste object can be understood differently from these perspectives. Does one of these conceptualization seem to make more sense for understanding why your object is considered to be waste? This can be a waste object you’ve already written about, or something new.

A four quadrant plot of different conceptualizations of waste from Moore 2012

Readings from this week:

Moore, S. A. “Garbage Matters: Concepts in New Geographies of Waste.” Progress in Human Geography 36, no. 6 (December 1, 2012): 780–99. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132512437077.