Memo29+Describing+Practices,+To+Make+an+Analytic+Point--sferguson

**MEMO29: Describing Practice, to Make an Analytic Point**
This memo should include a 200-400-word description of a practice that you have or may observe, during your research, leveraging the description for analytic insight. The practice you describe could be a communicative practice, a technical practice, a bodily practice, or some combination of different kinds of practice. You can flesh out your description imaginatively if you don’t yet have actual detail. For an example, see my “Biopolitics and the Informating of Environm

What is the practice through which people are confronted with dealing with their waste. As one possible option I will use the Governor's office cafeteria as a representative example and consider an aggregate portrayal of what an individual must consider as they go through the daily motions of consuming a meal who's containers, trays, etc. are composed of different product types. In this practice the individual is forced to use the compostable and biodegradable serving ware and as a result is confronted with a choice to use the separate recepticles for each product type or ignore this option and throw everything in the typical trash bin. As a potential option I could have two parallel accounts where an individual in the U.S. and an individual in Germany are confronted with similar situations. This basic practice is indicative of what consumers must deal with if they intend to be more actively engaged in the consumption of products and endpoint of their waste. This description would also be a foray into the comparative cultural practice as it relates to the structural backdrop of each societies progress in dealing with waste production.