{"product_id":"composting-utopia-guy-schaffer-9781625347701","title":"Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City","description":"\u003cp\u003e New Yorkers generate millions of tons of trash annually, which, through the magic of infrastructure and one of the largest waste management systems in the world, disappears from city sidewalks each night. Under pressure from environmentalists, activists, policymakers, and industry, the New York City Department of Sanitation started exploring ways to divert organic material from the waste stream, and in 2013, launched its composting pilot program. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork with community composters and microhaulers in New York City, alongside the rollout of the city's curbside organics collection system, \u003ci\u003eComposting Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e describes how local, grassroots organizations intervened in the city's waste system, enacting change and presenting an alternative vision of the composting city. As Guy Shaffer argues, movement-driven infrastructure projects develop new tools for organizing the world, give communities agency over urban design, and promote just sustainability. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guy Schaffer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1625347707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625347701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Guy Schaffer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45897346351359,"sku":"9781625347701","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1c10753a-e723-4764-a12e-24d0d901966c.jpg?v=1721373716","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/composting-utopia-guy-schaffer-9781625347701","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}