EDITORIAL
Introduction to Special Collection: Social Science and the Social Life of Plastic Brigitte Steger, Patrick O’hare, Teresa Sandra Perez

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Problematising Plastic: A Visual Analysis of the ‘Jute not Plastic’ Campaign, 1976–1979 (Switzerland, Germany, Austria) Charlotte Bruns, Matthias Sommer

‘Drinking and Dropping’: On Interacting with Plastic Pollution and Waste in South-Eastern Nigeria Lesley Henderson, Emeka Dumbili

Cambridge, Carnaval, and the ‘Actually Existing Circularity’ of Plastics Patrick O’Hare

‘Stingy, Stingy, Stingy Government’: Mixed Responses to the Introduction of the Plastic Carrier Bag Levy in Japan Brigitte Steger

Piles of Plastic on Darkening Himalayan Peaks: Changing Cosmopolitics of ‘Pollution’ in Limi, Western Nepal Hildegard Diemberger, Samanta Skrivere

Plastic Mut(e)ability: Limited Promises of Plasticity Tridibesh Dey

Recycling Food Waste: An Investigation into the Delicate Process of Bio-waste Valuation François-Joseph Daniel, Marion Martin

The Discursive Power of Recycling: Valuing Plastic Waste in Cape Town Teresa Sandra Perez

EDITORIAL
Editorial Introduction to the Special Collection ‘Dirty Places, Geographies of Waste’ Jaime Moreno-Tejada

RESEARCH ARTICLES
A Deal over Dirt: From a German–German Bargain to the Creation of an Environmental Problem in the 1980s Sophie Lange

Secrecy at the End of the Recycling Chain: The Recycling of Plastic Waste in Surabaya, Indonesia Freek Colombijn

‘We Are Already Sick’: Infectious Waste Management and Inequality in the Time of Covid-19, a Reflection from Blantyre, Malawi Elizabeth Tilley, Marc Kalina

Cultural Origins of Japan’s Premodern Night Soil Collection System Marta E. Szczygiel

Shifting Definitions of Hazardous Wastes Craig Colten

Waste Pickers at the Heart of the Circular Economy: A Perspective of Inclusive Recycling from the Global South Jutta Gutberlet, Sebastián Carenzo

The Fluid Geography of Rubbish: An Analysis of the Patras Refugee Camp (1999–2009) Sotiris Lycourghiotis

Scarecrows and Scapegoats: The Futility and Power of Cleaning a Landscape Khalil Avi Betz-Heinemann, Joseph Tzanopoulos

EDITORIAL
On Materiality and Meaning: Ethnographic Engagements with Reuse, Repair & Care Cindy Isenhour, Joshua Reno

Editorial Introduction to the Special Collection ‘Development of Waste – Development as Waste’ Iris Borowy

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Building Castles out of Debris: Reuse Interior Design as a ‘Design of the Concrete’ Staffan Appelgren

‘It will Keep Circulating’: Loving and Letting Go of Things in Swedish Second-hand Markets Anna Bohlin

Reminiscence and Recompense: Reuse and the Garage Sale Gretchen M. Herrmann

Electronic Life Histories: At Home with E-waste Waste Materialities and Meaning Shannon Mcmullen, Laura Zanotti, H. Kory Cooper

Rummaging through the Attic of New England Brieanne Berry, Jennifer Bonnet, Cindy Isenhour

The Spectre of Superbugs: Waste, Structural Violence and Antimicrobial Resistance in India Assa Doron, Alex Broom

A Materially Contextualised Account of Waste Pickers’ Marginalisation in Brazil: The Case of ‘Rubbish PET’ Tatianna Mello Pereira Da Silva

In the Name of Circularity: Environmental Improvement and Business Slowdown in a Chinese Recycling Hub Yvan Schulz, Anna Lora-Wainwright

The Struggle for Sustainable Waste Management in Hong Kong: 1950s–2010s Nele Fabian, Loretta Ieng Tak Lou

Hazardous Waste: The Beginning of International Organizations Addressing a Growing Global Challenge in the 1970s Iris Borowy