"The authors argue that, although recycling more would seem to make good ecological sense, corporate programmes can rely on and further ingrain social patterns of harm and exploitation, particularly for the burgeoning labour force that depends on recyclables for subsistence living [...] The ongoing corporatisation of recycling, the authors argue further, is devaluing already marginalised populations within the global economy."
Source: Dauvergne, P., and G. LeBaron. 2013. ‘The Social Cost of Environmental Solutions’. New Political Economy 18 (3): 410–30. doi:10.1080/13563467.2012.740818. |