David Beron Echavarria
Amherst College
Project
Rubbish Collectors, Tech Inventors, and Policymakers: Exploring Innovation in Waste Management
Argentina, Egypt, Singapore,Sweden
Post-consumer waste is present where humans exist as economic and biologic agents and has become inextricably linked to countless lives and landscapes. During my Watson year, I will engage with and learn from various communities that are reducing, collecting, processing, reusing, and recycling waste in unusually innovative ways. To do so, I will travel to countries where unique social arrangements, technical developments, and public policies are transforming our expectations of waste management in differing contexts around the globe.