Circular Economy of Wastewater: Recirculation, Spinning, and Rolling to the Future
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350296664.0011" target="_blank" >10.5040/9781350296664.0011</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Circular Economy of Wastewater: Recirculation, Spinning, and Rolling to the Future
Original language description
This chapter explores practices and ideas associated with the recirculation of landfill leachate at Czech landfills to understand the relationship between the circle as an abstract ideal and the circle as an economic model with its imperfections. The recirculation is understood here as a kind of circular economy because it organises matter, energy, technology, and labour using the logic of circular movement. An ethnographic immersion into the world of landfills and actors dealing with the fluid circulating there enables the author to draw attention to the ways in which seemingly separate natural processes such as water cycle entwine with a humanmade world and its technologies. The fluid nature of leachate offers a unique opportunity to trace the connections and effects across scales. A mobilization of circular movement in landfill leachate treatment cuts costs for the waste management companies but externalizes harm to the organisms who come into direct contact with this polluting fluid at the landfills and other places that become recipients of potential harm. The author argues that circular economic arrangements create opportunities for the hypertrophy of the market and functions as a time-machine that postpones the solution of waste’s toxicity. He joins the scholarship that calls for a more balanced understanding of circular economy, which represents it not only as a promise for more sustainable futures but also a powerful vehicle for the unexpected consequences of circularity.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-06759S" target="_blank" >GA20-06759S: Waste Regime at a Crossroad: Divergent Trajectories of Things, Cars, and Electronics</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Circular Economies in an Unequal World: Waste, Renewal and the Effects of Global Circularity
ISBN
978-1-3502-9662-6
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
153-171
Number of pages of the book
224
Publisher name
Bloomsbury
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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