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Waste Colonialism, Recycling, & Microplastics

May 23, 2022

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Does Erecycling Matter?

02:07

I'm Aiabout Solution Guage

01:52

Pollution as Colonialism

03:50

Introduction

3min

Waste Management and Colonialism in General

1min

Waste and Inequity in the United States

2min

Waste in Equity

4min

What Do You Do With Your Trash?

2min

What Are the Different Types of Recycling?

1min

Recycling Plastics

3min

Waste Self, It's Complicated to Talk About

2min

What Is Waste?

5min

10.

Waste Colonialism and the Global Order

2min

11.

Colonialism and Dispossession

1min

12.

Pollution as Colonialism

4min

13.

What Works?

2min

14.

Sanitation Workers Are Doing Car Work

2min

15.

Microplastics Are Emerging as the Lead of Our Era

3min

16.

Microplastics and Microplastic Pollution in the Aquatic Environment

2min

17.

Is the Only Real Solution the Eradication of Microplastics?

2min

18.

Plastic Pollution - It's Not Just About Eradicating Plasters

2min

19.

I'm Aiabout Solution Guage

2min

20.

Getting a Waste on It Is What I Would Recommend for Any Business

2min

21.

What Can You Really Do?

2min

22.

What You Have Access to Is Imperative, and What You Can Do About It

2min

23.

Is There an Email Address, a Club, a Community Anyting, Anywhere?

2min

24.

Anti-Colonial Approach to the Issues We Face

2min

25.

Can I Be More Conscious About Where I Buy My Produce?

3min

26.

Waste as a Weapon by State Forces

2min

27.

The Waste and Colonialism in Palestina

5min

28.

Does Erecycling Matter?

2min

29.

Recycling

2min

30.

What Is Composting?

2min

31.

Is Biodegradable a Good Idea?

5min

32.

How to Recycle Nicolodian Slime

2min

Jesi Taylor joins Breht to discuss waste management, how the racialized, colonial and imperialist world order dictates where certain kinds of trash ends up, the impact of landfills on communities, the hyper-localism of recyclying and its effectiveness, the fear of microplastics, and more!

Find Jesi on twitter: https://twitter.com/moontwerk

Check out Discard Studies: https://discardstudies.com/

Wired Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUBHyTM3VEg&ab_channel=WIRED

Outro music: 'American Garbage' by AJJ

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