LEADER 03396oam 2200493K 450 001 9910793246603321 005 20230918133152.0 010 $a0-262-34638-9 010 $a0-262-34637-0 010 $z9780262535335$bpaperback 035 $a(CKB)4100000007213066 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat08544156 035 $a(IDAMS)0b0000648888340b 035 $a(IEEE)8544156 035 $a(OCoLC)1062398620 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1062398620 035 $a(MaCbMITP)11111 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5965871 035 $a(PPN)254854397 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007213066 100 $a20181112d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2isbdmedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aReassembling rubbish $eworlding electronic waste /$fJosh Lepawsky 210 1$aCambridge :$cThe MIT Press,$d2018 215 $a1 PDF (240 pages) 311 $a0-262-03788-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [179]-207) and index. 327 $aWaste/Non-Waste -- The discard test -- Charting flows of electronic waste -- Looking again in a different way -- Weighty geographies. 330 $aAn examination of the global trade and traffic in discarded electronics that reframes the question of the "right" thing to do with e-waste. The prevailing storyline about the problem of electronic waste frames e-waste as generated by consumers in developed countries and dumped on people and places in developing countries. In Reassembling Rubbish , Josh Lepawsky offers a different view. In an innovative analysis of the global trade and traffic in discarded electronics, Lepawsky reframes the question of the "right" thing to do with e-waste, mapping the complex flows of electronic materials. He counters the assumption that e-waste is a post-consumer problem, pointing out that waste occurs at all stages of electronic materials' existence, and calls attention to the under-researched world of reuse and repair. Lepawsky explains that there are conflicting legal distinctions between electronic waste and non-waste, and examines a legal case that illustrates the consequences. He shows that patterns of trade do not support the dominant narrative of e-waste dumping but rather represent the dynamic ecologies of repair, refurbishment, and materials recovery. He asks how we know waste, how we measure it, and how we construe it, and how this affects our efforts to mitigate it. We might not put so much faith in household recycling if we counted the more massive amounts of pre-consumer electronic waste as official e-waste. Lepawsky charts the "minescapes," "productionscapes", and "clickscapes" of electronics, and the uneven "discardscapes" they produce. Finally, he considers both conventional and unconventional e-waste solutions, including decriminalizing export for reuse, repair, and upgrade; enabling ethical trade in electronics reuse, repair, refurbishment, and recycling; implementing extended producer responsibility; and instituting robust forms of public oversight. 606 $aElectronic waste 610 $aENVIRONMENT/General 615 0$aElectronic waste. 676 $a628.4/4 700 $aLepawsky$b Josh$f1972-$01527793 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793246603321 996 $aReassembling rubbish$93771007 997 $aUNINA