Trash in Transit

Abstract

Waste handling in the Netherlands has been subject to change due to the government's ambition to become a Circular Economy by 2050. This ethnography seeks to answer the question how transition(s) influence visions on domestic waste in the 21st century. Waste transitions are movements in the configurations of waste and how its dealt with within a society. The research, that is conducted in the province of Utrecht, narrates the entanglement along humans and domestic waste, and argues that they are relation, continuously in motion. Meanwhile, as various people try to consume less, changing waste handling challenges identity formation by materials within the consumer society.