schaffer_earth_day

Over the last year and a half, a group of waste reform advocates in Troy has been working to implement changes in waste policy and to design new systems for turning food scraps into useful compost. In doing so, they have envisioned new imaginaries of "waste stewardship" in which care for the compost heap replaces the indifference of typical disposal. In this project, I aggregate articulations of waste stewardship and ideal waste systems gleaned from interviews with Troy compost advocates. As a new mode of relating to waste...