About the editors -- Figures -- 1.1 Opening the bales of clothing -- 1.2 Mountains of clothing are sorted into 'colour families' -- 1.3 A woman cuts up a tailored coat -- 2.1 Ship becoming steel -- 2.2 Chock-chocky furnishings -- 3.1 Flows of uranium to conversion facilities needed for nuclear electricity production in France, 2008 -- 3.2 The 'closed nuclear cycle' -- 3.3 Waste and materials generated in the material fuel chain -- 4.1 Industrial clusters related to recycling e-waste in the Yangtze river delta -- 4.2 The changing mode of competition in the global electronics industry -- 4.3 The role of different players in WEEE recycling flows -- 4.4 Different approaches in the EPR system -- 5.1 An educational mural -- 6.1 Negative equivalences of linguistic value -- 7.1 Catadores scramble to collect plastics -- 7.2 Bales of plastic bottles -- 9.1 A process of reinstitutionalizing the biomedical discard -- 9.2 An advisory medical professional in IHM's 'sorting room' -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Histories and representations of recycling -- Economies of recycling -- Notes -- References -- Section One: Global waste flows -- 1 

Domestic reincorporation and appropriation: shipshape and Bengali fashion -- Conclusions - the dangers of revalorization -- Notes -- References -- 3 

Cartoneando: from discarded workers to workers of waste -- 6.1 Negative equivalences of linguistic value -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 

Legal cases cited -- 11