A sumptuous collection about waste's many meanings from a diverse group of inventive writers. Each essay is a lush sample of how wastes and worlds come to be-from materials to lives, infrastructures to memories, and more. Read and teach from this collection and you will develop a taste for waste.

Josh Lepawsky, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

'Waste Collection does what few anthologies manage: it turns a keyword into a method of waste worlding. Each chapter takes a single term and opens a world from it - infrastructural, ecological, remembered, unjust. Concise, teachable, and genuinely interdisciplinary, this is the book I will put in students' hands when they ask where discard studies begins.'

Daren Shi-Chi Leung, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

'An extraordinary book! Chow and Sage have convened a global community of multidisciplinary contributors who deliver an inspired series of critical interventions in waste and discard studies. Waste Collection is a vital tool for innovative theory and transformative world-making.'

David N. Pellow, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Waste collects in our oceans, archives, and through the structural violence of colonialism and capitalism. This vital collection gathers these threads into a powerful narrative, proving that discard is not an end point, but the force defining our global future.

Joshua Reno, Binghamton University, USA