Books

• Discard Studies Wasting, Systems, and Power By Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky here
• Recycling reconsidered. Samantha MacBride
• Why Do We Recycle?: Markets, Values, and Public Policy.  Frank Ackerman
• Pollution is colonialism. Max Liboiron
• Is It Safe?: BPA and the Struggle to Define the Safety of Chemicals. Vogel.
• Reassembling Rubbish: Worlding Electronic Waste. By Josh Lepawsky
• Waste and Want. By Susan Strasser 
• The Waste Makers. By Vance Packard 1960

Articles

• Fashion, its sacrifice zone and sustainability. Sandra Niessen here
• Slow violence and toxic geographies: ‘Out of sight’ to whom? Thom Davies https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399654419841063#:~:text=But%20toxic%20geographies%20are%20also,to%20accumulate%20knowledge%20about%20pollution.
• Hidden Mountain The Social Avoidance of Waste https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258153304_Hidden_Mountain_The_Social_Avoidance_of_Waste
• Zsuzsa Gille, From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Post-Socialist Hungary https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248671628_Zsuzsa_Gille_From_the_Cult_of_Waste_to_the_Trash_Heap_of_History_The_Politics_of_Waste_in_Socialist_and_Post-Socialist_Hungary
• Materials that linger: An embodied geography of polyester clothes lElyseStanesChrisGibson https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718517301835
• Terra Economica : Waste and the Production of Enclosed Nature by Jesse Goldstein
• Measurement and alienation: making a world of ecosystem services. Morgan Robertson
• As the ocean waters rise, so do the islands of garbage: The Thirtieth Newsletter (2019) By Vijay Prashad https://mronline.org/2019/07/26/as-the-ocean-waters-rise-so-do-the-islands-of-garbage/ 
• The Politics of Recycling vs. Reusing. here
• City recycled. Kao
• The Nazi rag-pickers and their wine: the politics of waste and recycling in Nazi Germany https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03071022.2015.1076124
• Human crap. By Gabrielle Hecht https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-disposability-is-a-new-and-noxious-fiction 
• From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary. By Zsuzsa Gille https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/from-the-cult-of-waste-to-the-trash-heap-of-history-the-politics-of-waste-in-socialist-and-postsocialist-hungary_zsuzsa-gille/14102091/#edition=14956163&idiq=19852239
• Environmental impact and human health risks of air pollutants near a large chemical/petrochemical complex: Case study in Tarragona, Spain https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721026218 
• Where do your clothes go https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30227025 

Other

• Report: World bank https://datatopics.worldbank.org/what-a-waste/
• Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities EVE TUCK
• GAIA https://www.no-burn.org/plastics-exposed-how-waste-assessments-and-brand-audits-are-helping-philippine-cities-fight-plastic-pollution/
• https://discardstudies.com
• Capitalist Economies Create Waste, Not Social Value https://truthout.org/articles/capitalist-economies-create-waste-not-social-value/?amp
• Challenge: My plastic free life Beth Terry https://myplasticfreelife.com/
• Documentary The Cleaners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGCGhD8i-o4
• Reports plastic https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/library/#reports
• Report: incineratos https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/7-UNEA-publication-packet_waste-incineration.pdf

Food ( credit Rachael Marshall from Food Futures)

• Useful report on the biogas industry, perverse subsidies and how it is supporting the growth of the industrial livestock industry:  https://feedbackglobal.org/campaigns/indigestible/
• Feedback’s facts about the food system: https://feedbackglobal.org/knowledge-hub/food-waste-scandal/
• FoodFutures review of the food system: https://foodfutures.org.uk/food-strategy/literature-review/