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In China’s rapidly growing cities, urban waste management is becoming one of China’s most pressing concerns. Xin Tong, who has worked on developing new approaches to e-waste management in China, examines the social and economic facets of China’s waste problem, including the consumerist culture and marginalized manufacturing workers that support it. Tong presents a case study of Beijing’s ‘waste villages’, Bajia and Dongxiaokou, which have become urban centres of scavenging and recycling waste, while assessing the community-oriented strategies employed by municipal administrations since the implementation of the ‘urban circular economic system’ in 2000.
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This research was supported by grants from the China National Natural Science Foundation (‘Technological Transition through Extended Producer Responsibility in Electronics Industry’ [41271548]). We thank all of the interviewees for sharing their ideas with us during our field studies. Thanks to all anonymous referees for their advice and suggestions on the early draft.
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Tong, X. (2017). From “Waste Village” to “Urban Circular Economic System”: The Changing Landscape of Waste in Beijing. In: Brevini, B., Murdock, G. (eds) Carbon Capitalism and Communication. Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57876-7_6
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