Finn Arne Jørgensen examines the development of the Scandinavian beverage container deposit-refund system, which has the highest return rates in the world, from 1970 to the present day. He reveals the challenges faced when the system was exported internationally and explores the critical role of technological infrastructures and consumer convenience in modern recycling.
A woman and her family live next to a recycling plant in China, in mountains of plastic waste from Asia, Europe, and the U.S.This documentary reveals the lives of those on the fringes of global capitalist realities, a far cry from the communist dream.
The authors develop “composting” as a metaphor for their two main arguments: that certain feminist concepts and commitments are foundational to the environmental humanities, and that more inclusive feminist composting is necessary for the future of the field.
Once the largest toxic e-waste dump in the world, government investment in environmentally sustainable recycling has begun to change Guiyu.
In Recycling, former Rachel Carson Center fellow Finn Arne Jørgensen investigates the benefits and drawbacks of recycling.
Finn Arne Jørgensen on recycling. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
On the Swedish institutionalization of disposable beverage packaging in the twentieth century.
Simon Werrett, Carson Fellow from May to September 2011, talks about his research on ‘Recycling and the History of Science and Technology.’
