{"id":1179,"date":"2021-05-08T05:50:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T05:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2021-05-11T21:05:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T21:05:14","slug":"online-book-talk-jorgensen-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/events\/booktalk\/online-book-talk-jorgensen-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Online book talk: J\u00f8rgensen, Recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to a scheduling change, Finn Arne J\u00f8rgensen, Professor of environmental history at University of Stavanger and co-host of the book talk series, presented his recent book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/recycling\">Recycling<\/a><\/em> (MIT Press, 2019) on 10 May 2021, 16:00 Central European time in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is there a point to recycling? Is recycling even good for the environment? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Finn Arne J\u00f8rgensen answers (drumroll, please): it depends. From a technical point of view, recycling is a series of processes\u2014collecting, sorting, processing, manufacturing. Recycling also has a cultural component; at its core, recycling is about transformation and value, turning material waste into something useful\u2014plastic bags into patio furniture, plastic bottles into T-shirts. J\u00f8rgensen offers an accessible and engaging overview of recycling as an activity and as a process at the intersection of the material and the ideological.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">J\u00f8rgensen follows a series of materials as they move back and forth between producer and consumer, continually transforming in form and value, in a never-ceasing journey toward becoming waste. He considers organic waste and cultural contamination; the history of recyclable writing surfaces from papyrus to newsprint; discarded clothing as it moves from the the Global North to the Global South; the shifting fate of glass bottles; the efficiency of aluminum recycling; the many types of plastic and the difficulties of informed consumer choice; e-waste and technological obsolescence; and industrial waste. Finally, re-asking the question posed by John Tierney in an infamous 1996\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0article, \u201cis recycling garbage?\u201d J\u00f8rgensen argues that recycling is necessary\u2014as both symbolic action and physical activity that has a tangible effect on the real world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greenhouse book talk: FA J&amp;oslash;rgensen\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/548134308?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"819\" height=\"461\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to a scheduling change, Finn Arne J\u00f8rgensen, Professor of environmental history at University of Stavanger and co-host of the book talk series, presented his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booktalk"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Jorgensen_cover.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}