Waste prevention and control are existential real-world problems, problems that have as much to do with equitable institutional arrangements as they do with chemistry and environmental science. Who in the real world is better positioned to tackle these problems than our anthropological community? The post Waste Prevention and Control appeared first on Anthropology News .

In Senegal, discarded palm oil canisters―symbols of peripheral lives and products of destructive commodity chains―are reworked into useful objects. The post Bidonville–Bidonmondes appeared first on Anthropology News .

Defecation is an act of human necessity. But is it really just waste, or might it be something more? The post Ten Ways That Human Waste Isn’t Waste at All appeared first on Anthropology News .