Recycling: the big smoke

In a context of overconsumption of resources and an explosion in the quantity of our waste, recycling seems like a panacea in the face of the heresy of landfilling or incineration. We would like to believe in the virtues of a system that would allow us to continue to consume "as if nothing had happened", by just making the effort to sort. Communication campaigns from public or private actors maintain this mirage, ignoring the limits of recycling. A privileged observer of waste management, Flore Berlingen deciphers the promises of this falsely circular economy, which maintains the myth of infinitely recyclable products. It demonstrates how its characteristics, in line with productivism and capitalism, contribute to perpetuating the use of the disposable. “We would like the whole world to read this book. » Economic Alternatives What if recycling was just a decoy?