Slat, Boyan, "How the Oceans Can Clean Themselves"
Boyan Slat combines environmentalism, creativity, and technology to tackle global issues of sustainability and pollution.
Boyan Slat combines environmentalism, creativity, and technology to tackle global issues of sustainability and pollution.
Powerless Science? looks at complex historical, social, and political dynamics, made up of public controversies, environmental and health crises, economic interests, and political responses, and demonstrates how and to what extent scientific knowledge about toxicants has been caught between scientific, economic, and political imperatives.
By detailing the waste we have discarded, John Scanlan argues that we can learn new things about the building blocks of our culture; he throws new light on the modern condition by examining not what we have kept, but what we have thrown away.
Discard Studies is a website designed as an online hub for scholars, activists, environmentalists, students, artists, planners, and others whose work touches on themes relevant to the study of waste and wasting.