For the collective good? Free-market claims for hazardous waste
by Stephanie A. Welcomer, Mark Haggerty
Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (IER), Vol. 5, No. 1, 2003

Abstract: This article employs critical theory to analyze how the free-market perspective legitimates hazardous waste production and disposal. This legitimation is most apparent in processes of regulation and disposal of hazardous waste. Integral to regulation and disposal is a series of communication acts aimed at defining hazardous waste, suggesting particular relations of the substances to production, society, and individuals. We argue that free-market claims fundamentally distort the relation of hazardous waste to society, individuals, democratic process, and the ecosystem. We suggest that a reliance on a more holistic economic approach is necessary to address the dilemma facing society.

Online publication date: Mon, 13-May-2013

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