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VOL. 11, ISSUE 2 (2025)
Ethics of waste: Disposability, self-cultivation and the art of transience
Authors
Laboni Bandyopadhyay
Abstract
In today’s world, waste is perhaps the most
significant yet complicated category deprived of a proper definition. For
environmentalists, waste as a practice of excess stands for death, whereas for
commodity cultures, it represents economic freedom and personal choice. Amid
the appeals to save the planet and the tendency to possess and accumulate, the
solid interconnections we once had with our waste, have been long forgotten. What
we are left with, is a restricted sort of source as the moral motivation for
responsible abandonment, reflecting the core of actual crisis. This reality
presents substantial obstacles in finding ways to coexist with the waste we’ve
neglected every day. The article hence intends to collect nearly everything
that modern society throws away and never really looks back. In taking up this
as a challenge, I aim to explore how waste, often seen as worthless detritus,
contributes to shaping the self and ethical sensibilities. When it comes to
waste management, the intention is neither to imply the need for changes, based
on fear or disgust nor to alter its apparent negative role into a positive one.
Instead, what I do desire is to provide, waste material, the attention it
deserves, by considering and re-considering various instances of their crucial
generative role.
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Pages:57-65
How to cite this article:
Laboni Bandyopadhyay "Ethics of waste: Disposability, self-cultivation and the art of transience". International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research, Vol 11, Issue 2, 2025, Pages 57-65
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