So, to continue on, I just figured I had to better explain what GARBAGE MINING is because it's so amazing!!! For my one reader (Thanks for reading this, Jane):
"Management of MSW raises questions about the capacity of future generations to reduce some of the intergenerational risk sources. For example, will future generations be able to find more benign ways to treat waste, come up with methods to make land safe for any future use, or develop recycling technologies that can expand the range of materials treated? Landfill mining -- whereby waste is abstracted from closed landfills for recycling, usually to extend void space capacity -- is already a reality. If such an argument can be sustained, basic storage of present waste might become an acceptable option, although this does not prevent intragenerational risks in the even of storage failure, institutional failure, or both." (Petts 2000:825)
Sunday, December 4, 2011
ACADEMIC CRUSH: Judith Petts
Alright, I know I'm a complete dork, but I think I'm in love with a new scholar in my field. Meet Judith Petts - she's a scholar in the field of risk management. I'm slowing becoming better acquainted with risk assessment as I do more and more readings. It's pretty interesting stuff.
In her article written in 2000 titled "Municipal Waste Management: Inequities and the Role of Deliberation" she discusses Environmental Justice and the process of siting a waste facility. She dips into optimising profitability, functionality, safety and legality, but doesn't even brush up against anything Robert Bullard would associate siting a landfill with. It's absolutely astounding! I'm so happy to have found contrasting ideas in this field. I was getting a little down about the social justice field, thinking it was so idealistic and cynical at the same time. Perhaps I'm just sick of Ro Bull. He's is actually kind of passe in this field!!! No disrespect thought because he did start the whole social justice movement in the eighties and nineties and he isn't white and bearded like the other civil rights folk that started it out (John Muir...etc.)
But back to Petts - she also talks about GARBAGE MINING in this 2000 article. When I visited New York a month ago, I started talking to a guy who lived with my friends that I was staying with. He suggested garbage mining as a feasible economic opportunity in the future. I kind of shrugged him off because the idea was completely new to me and I remember him looking at me saying "Kim, this has been studied, I didn't make this up." I was floored, I had been schooled in my own field. I thought he was the coolest and I had a big hate for the guy to. I am however incredibly proud to say that I have found an article that talks about garbage mining (for potentially recyclable resources) and I have to send all my love and praise towards the powerhouse garbage queen Judith Petts.
In her article written in 2000 titled "Municipal Waste Management: Inequities and the Role of Deliberation" she discusses Environmental Justice and the process of siting a waste facility. She dips into optimising profitability, functionality, safety and legality, but doesn't even brush up against anything Robert Bullard would associate siting a landfill with. It's absolutely astounding! I'm so happy to have found contrasting ideas in this field. I was getting a little down about the social justice field, thinking it was so idealistic and cynical at the same time. Perhaps I'm just sick of Ro Bull. He's is actually kind of passe in this field!!! No disrespect thought because he did start the whole social justice movement in the eighties and nineties and he isn't white and bearded like the other civil rights folk that started it out (John Muir...etc.)
But back to Petts - she also talks about GARBAGE MINING in this 2000 article. When I visited New York a month ago, I started talking to a guy who lived with my friends that I was staying with. He suggested garbage mining as a feasible economic opportunity in the future. I kind of shrugged him off because the idea was completely new to me and I remember him looking at me saying "Kim, this has been studied, I didn't make this up." I was floored, I had been schooled in my own field. I thought he was the coolest and I had a big hate for the guy to. I am however incredibly proud to say that I have found an article that talks about garbage mining (for potentially recyclable resources) and I have to send all my love and praise towards the powerhouse garbage queen Judith Petts.
Friday, December 2, 2011
MORE FAB ACRONYMS!
AHP Analytic Hierarchy Process
ASSURRE Association for the Sustainable Use and Recovery of Resources in Europe
BANANA Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything
BPEO Best Practicable Environmental Option
CBA Cost Beneļ¬t Analysis
EIA Environmental Impact Assessment
EEWC European Energy from waste coalition
ELECTRE Elimination and Choice Translating Reality (multicriteria method)
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ERRA European Recovery and Recycling Association
EUROPEN European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment
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