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Table 4: Pollution, Materials, and Metabolic Rift
Sat, August 8, 4:00 to 5:00pm, TBASession Submission Type: Refereed Roundtable (60 minute)
Description
These papers examine how waste and industrial byproducts are repurposed in ways that reproduce environmental risk, from PFAS-contaminated biosolids to building materials and resource extraction. Together, they highlight how capitalist systems transform waste into new forms of exposure, generating ongoing environmental harm and community contestation.
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Individual Presentations
City Under Steam: Toxic Facilities as a Site of Negotiation and Contestation - Major Eason, Harvard University
Sustainable Fertilizer or Pervasive Pollution? Metabolic rift and the wicked problems of PFAS in biosolids - Emily Alissa Opal Haberlack, Northeastern University
The Environmental Risk and Everyday Walls: Extraction, Production, and Waste in Drywall - Albert S. Fu, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
The Terminal Metabolic Rift: Contemporary Guano Extraction in Peru - Mauricio Betancourt, Washington and Lee University
Toxic Waste as Fertilizer: PFAS in Land-Applied Sewage Sludge - Grace M Poudrier, Northeastern University; Emily Alissa Opal Haberlack, Northeastern University; Michael Lengefeld, Northeastern University; Michael Haedicke, University of Maine; Phil Brown, Northeastern University; Alissa Cordner, Whitman College