This lecture is the first in the ASI lecture series “Waste: inevitable evil, avoidable curse, or precious resource?”. It will give some amazing, and sometimes dirty facts about “waste”, and offer a first introduction to the different scientific approaches to waste (which will be developed more deeply in the following lectures of the series).
The lecture will then zoom in on the management of household waste in the Global South, in particular in the city of Surabaya (Indonesia). Is waste seen as a serious problem, a non-issue, merely an eyesore or an opportunity?.
The Waste Lecture Series is an initiative of ASI together with Freek Colombijn (Faculty of Social Sciences, Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU Amsterdam). Amsterdam Sustainability Institute provides an inclusive umbrella for sustainability-related research at VU.
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