Treating Waste as a Resource: Scalings, Configurations and Ontologies

Wilson A, Meeting Rooms 2 & 3, OU, Milton Keynes

A free OpenSpace seminar in which IKD member Les Levidow and others will look at how waste is treated as a resource in global contexts.

Lunch (provided) from 13.00, presentation & discussion 14.00 - 16.00.

Abstract
Waste flows are shaped by the interplay of waste regimes, policy agendas, regulatory pressures and markets, which readily cross national borders. Societal choices generally remain implicit, but can become explicit through controversy or critical analysis.

This seminar will explore the ontological ambiguity of the term 'waste'  – in its title, 'treating waste' has several meanings, including designing, classifying, framing, segregating and metamorphosing waste. The speakers will also focus on the way in which earlier well-established wastewater management systems are becoming re-politicised around new challenges at the interface of health and environment, in particular antimicrobial resistance.

Speakers
Les Levidow (OU) & Sujatha Raman (University of Nottingham): Treating Organic Waste: Configuring Technological Systems

Sarah Bell and Aiduan Borrion (UCL): Co-designing Waste Solutions with Local Communities

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