My thesis aims to unobscure the ideology of wasting through embodied storytelling, philosophical inquiry, and sociopolitical history. In particular, I take the trashcan as a material representation of an "edge of externalization" --a concept I explore throughout this thesis to describe the edges beyond which waste management networks, strategies, and failures become visible. These edges offer spaces to critically engage with the inevitabilities backed into a wasting ideology that necessitates the disconnection between nature/society. Therefore, these edges offer spaces to understand and transform the alienation of our human nature. The human relationship to waste and to the trashcans in our homes is a familiar story hidden by strategic pedagogies of obfuscation. This project seeks to replace dominant behaviorist pedagogies with an alternative "compost pedagogy," which emphasizes a process of becoming through the transformation of the trashcan. Through a reflexive and creative process, the thesis explores my personal experiences with waste in the hope that my stories will not only unobscure global systems of wasting, but that my stories of unlearning, mending, and reimagining wasting will resonate with many lived experiences. / Master of Science / The purpose of this thesis is to explore the role of the trashcan as a waste management technology within our homes and use stories about alternative experiences of waste and waste management to challenge the normative narratives surrounding waste. I use the trashcan as a spectacle to understand the history of how material disposability arose in the twentieth century and as a way to understand the systems of our world most informed by the practices of waste and wasting. Using the lens of pedagogy, I aim to unobscure the dominant and oppressive education and infrastructure surrounding wasting and propose an alternative form of pedagogy I identify throughout my thesis as the compost pedagogy.

The Virginia Division of Litter Control's education package entitled Operation Waste Watch (OWW) was evaluated at the first, fourth, and sixth grade level in 19 elementary schools in two southwestern counties in Virginia. Evaluation was provided for the standard curriculum program and for a specially modified behavioral version of the original material. Program evaluation for both curriculum packages was provided immediately before, after, and three months after the implementation of the program and consisted of student achievement testing in terms of knowledge about solid waste management and the assessment of actual student behavior. Specifically, the data was analyzed according to the factorial design: 3 Grade (First, Fourth, Sixth) x 3 Curriculum Condition (Standard, Modified, Control) x 3 Phase (Pre, Post, Follow-up). Significant improvements following the implementation of the educational curriculum occurred only for the student achievement tests. Both programs were found to significantly raise student test performance immediately following presentation of the curriculum materials. The level of student knowledge three months later was also found to statistically surpass baseline performance. However, there was little or no evidence, during Posttesting or Followup, of superior performance by students receiving the modified curriculum program. Supplemental information from the teachers concerning the overall effectiveness of the different curriculum components indicated that while the materials of OWW were needed and generally well constructed, there were severe problems concerning the amount of time needed to adequately teach the different student activities. / Ph. D.

Litter, whether river-based, marine, or terrestrial, is an ever-increasing environmental and economic issue. However, litter in freshwater environments is studied less than in marine environments. To better understand factors impacting stream-transported floating litter, seven watershed characteristics were assessed across a network of thirty litter collection devices. The research objective for this study was to quantify litter loading and assess watershed characteristics relative to litter loading. Of the various watershed characteristics in this study, land cover classification had the greatest impact on the amount of litter collected from the Litter Gitters followed by median household income. Results from this study can strengthen litter collection device placement and best management practices for litter prevention.

Mémoire en recherche-création / Ktf, la première partie de ce mémoire, est un récit au « je » qui tente de reproduire le parler des jeunes québécois. Il présente une vision des relations amoureuses au temps des nouvelles technologies à travers les yeux d’une jeune femme de 20 ans souffrant de dépendance affective. Le discours se double d’une réflexion sur l’endoctrinement par les discours sociaux qui poussent à accorder une grande importance au paraître. La narratrice, par son point de vue à la fois sarcastique et aliéné, s’attarde à raconter son banal quotidien, tout en reconduisant une multitude de stéréotypes et en pigeant allègrement dans le répertoire du kitsch et des pensées préconçues. Toutefois, grâce à son sens de l’autodérision, la narratrice insuffle à son récit une bonne dose de ridicule ce qui a pour effet de dévoiler le vide de sens qui sous-tend cette culture du paraître. La seconde partie de ce mémoire est un essai qui s’intéresse la culture populaire et au rire comme instruments de détournement des discours dominants et de la culture consacrée dans Borderline et La brèche de Marie-Sissi Labrèche. Cet essai en trois parties s’attarde d’abord à faire ressortir les références au tragique dans les deux récits de l’auteure, afin de montrer comment leurs héroïnes Sissi et Kiki sont oppressées par les grands discours du système officiel. Ensuite, les parties deux et trois portent sur le détournement que les narratrices font subir au tragique en le confrontant à diverses manifestations de la culture populaire comique, dont le kitsch, le grotesque, le ridicule, le carnavalesque et le trash. / Ktf, the first part of this M.A. Thesis, is a narrative that attempts to reproduce the orality of young people in Quebec. It presents a vision of love relationships in the age of new technologies through the eyes of a 20-years-old girl suffering from emotional dependence. The discourse is coupled with a reflection on indoctrination by social discourses that give great importance to appearing. The narrator, from her sarcastic and alienated point of view, dwells on her banal daily life, while reiterating a multitude of stereotypes and while gleefully pumping into kitsch repertoire and preconceived thoughts. However, thanks to her sense of self-deprecation, the narrator infuses her story with a good dose of ridicule, which has the effect of revealing the meaninglessness that underlies this culture of appearances. The second part is an essay on popular culture and laughter as instruments for diverting dominant discourses and consecrated culture in Borderline and La brèche by Marie-Sissi Labrèche. This three-part essay focuses first on highlighting references to tragedy in the author's two narratives, in order to show how their heroines Sissi and Kiki are oppressed by the great rhetoric of the official system. Then, parts two and three analyze how Labrèche turns away the tragic by confronting it with various manifestations of comic popular culture, including kitsch, grotesque, ridiculous, carnivalesque and trash.

科技的進步與經濟的發展，雖為人類創造了舒適便利的生活，但也製造了大量的廢棄物，根據環保署的估計，台灣地區每人每日垃圾製造量每年正以5%的驁人速度成長，而垃圾組成中，除了含有大量不易腐化物質外，亦含有相當高比例的可回收資源，為解決垃圾處理問題及避免資源的浪費，環保署在民國七十八年正式推展資源回收工作，陸續公告了各種回收辨法。推行至今，由於法令不夠周延、回收管道不健全，民眾配合意願不高、設備技術落後等因素，許多資源廢棄物或含有害物質之一般廢棄物仍未得到妥善的處理，為改善環境品質，將有用資源做最有效的利用，應針對當前資源回收工作所面臨的問題，作一通盤檢討，方能提出促進垃圾減量與資源回收的有效策略。限於時間及能力，本文之探討內容僅以環保署所訂出之17項應序回收之一般廢棄物為主。分析其從製造、消費、丟至棄回收各階段所可能發生的問題，而後提出一些高回收成效的經濟與非經濟策略。

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:29:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Roberto Maia Filho.pdf: 1845120 bytes, checksum: a93bebe7b3b86791d88d1e6e0af1e80e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-06-13 / Pontificia Universidade de São Paulo / ABSTRACT In this paper, garbage legal aspects nowadays are analysed under the influence and rules of diffuse and specially environmental law. As unisonal doctrine denies environmental heritage as res nullius (nobody s property) and qualifies it as res communes ommium (everybody s property), garbage is not supposed to be considered anymore as a mere res derelictae (abandoned property), turning out to be also a kind of obligatio communes ommium (an obligation or problem concerning everyone), due to the social relevance within the present circumstances. Over population, inordinated growth of towns and consumption, in short, aggravation of environmental problems, as further analysed, justifies a special attention towards the subject and a deeper analysis of legal aspects involved in this matter. That s what this scientific work was meant for dealing with a matter not much explored by jurists, with a deep conviction that, unless we join our efforts to look for solutions concerning solid waste, properly ruling its destination, life will be seriously threatened in its preservation and maintenance. / Neste trabalho, analisamos os atuais aspectos jurídicos do lixo, sob a influência das regras e princípios dos direitos difusos, em especial do Direito Ambiental. Como a uníssona doutrina nega ser o patrimônio ambiental res nullius (coisa de ninguém) e o aponta como res communes ommium (coisa de todos), o lixo não deve ser mais considerado apenas como res derelictae (coisa abandonada), consistindo também numa espécie de obligatio communes ommium (obrigação ou problema comum a todos), em decorrência da relevância social com que se insere na atualidade. A superpopulação, o desordenado crescimento das cidades e do consumo; enfim, o agravamento dos problemas ambientais, justifica que se dê maior atenção ao tema, com aprofundada análise dos aspectos jurídicos que o circundam. Por tal motivo, elaboramos este trabalho científico acerca de tema até então pouco explorado pelos juristas, na convicção de que se não nos unirmos, todos, na busca de soluções para o problema dos resíduos sólidos, regulamentando-o devidamente, os seres, que habitam o planeta, estarão à mercê de grave ameaça, para sua preservação e continuidade.

Este trabalho é o resultado do mergulho no universo da montagem e das apresentações da peça Os Reis Vagabundos do grupo teatral Tear, de 1982, rememorado pelos participantes da criação bem como pelo seu público. Esta peça é considerada um marco do teatro gaúcho e onde sua encenadora, Maria Helena Lopes, lançou mão de seus principais conceitos de trabalho: jogo dramático, improvisação, técnicas de clown e análise de movimento. / This work is consequence of the plunge into the production and the shows universe of the Tear group‟s play The Stray Kings (Os Reis Vagabundos), from 1982, evocated by the creation crew as well as by its audience. This play is ponderated as a landmark of gaucho theatre where its director, Maria Helena Lopes used her main work concepts: play, improvisation, clowning and movement analysis.

Orientador: Antenor Pasqual / Banca: Elias José Simon / Banca: Maria Gricia de Lourdes Grossi / Resumo: O presente trabalho apresenta uma abordagem energética dos resíduos sólidos urbanos (RSU) gerados no município de Cerqueira César - SP e suas implicações ambientais, políticas e sociais. Para compreender o processo de geração de resíduos no município e demonstrar a viabilidade econômica da reciclagem, além de propor alternativas de tratamento ambiental mais adequado destes resíduos, foi feita a sua caracterização física utilizando como objeto de estudo o lixão da cidade. Posteriormente foi feita uma correlação com dados da literatura, sob o ponto de vista de economia de energia com a reciclagem de cada um dos materiais separados e quantificados na caracterização. Paralelamente a isto, buscou-se identificar a concepção dos indivíduos deste município com relação ao problema da geração de resíduos e os impactos gerados no meio ambiente, bem como o desperdício de recursos energéticos. Deste modo foi aplicado um questionário junto aos alunos da Sétima Série e Segundo Colegial de uma escola pública de Ensino Fundamental e Médio, no qual vários aspectos conceituais relacionados ao lixo foram abordados. Com base nestas informações, foi possível estabelecer relações entre a geração dos resíduos e aspectos sociais e econômicos do município, além de se determinar o potencial energético a ser poupado com a reciclagem destes. / Abstract: The present work deals with an energetic approach of the urban solid wastes (USW) produced at the Município de Cerqueira César (Cerqueira César County) - SP, and its environmental, political and social implications. To understand the process of waste production in the county and to demonstrate the economical viability of recycling, besides to propose environmental treatment alternatives more suitable to these residues, it was accomplished its physical characteristics using as object of study the city garbage dump. Afterward, it was done a correlation with the literature data, under the viewpoint of energy saving with the recycling of each material separated and quantified in the characterization. In parallel to this, it was aimed to identify the conception of the individuals of this county in relation to the problem of the production of residues and the impacts to the environment, as well as the energy resources loss. It was presented a questionnaire to senior students of the Secondary and High School of a public school, on which several conceptual aspects were discussed in relation to waste. Based on this information, it was possible to establish relations between the residues production and the social and economic aspects of the county, besides determining the energetic potential to be saved with the recycling. / Mestre

Este trabalho é o resultado do mergulho no universo da montagem e das apresentações da peça Os Reis Vagabundos do grupo teatral Tear, de 1982, rememorado pelos participantes da criação bem como pelo seu público. Esta peça é considerada um marco do teatro gaúcho e onde sua encenadora, Maria Helena Lopes, lançou mão de seus principais conceitos de trabalho: jogo dramático, improvisação, técnicas de clown e análise de movimento. / This work is consequence of the plunge into the production and the shows universe of the Tear group‟s play The Stray Kings (Os Reis Vagabundos), from 1982, evocated by the creation crew as well as by its audience. This play is ponderated as a landmark of gaucho theatre where its director, Maria Helena Lopes used her main work concepts: play, improvisation, clowning and movement analysis.

Este trabalho é o resultado do mergulho no universo da montagem e das apresentações da peça Os Reis Vagabundos do grupo teatral Tear, de 1982, rememorado pelos participantes da criação bem como pelo seu público. Esta peça é considerada um marco do teatro gaúcho e onde sua encenadora, Maria Helena Lopes, lançou mão de seus principais conceitos de trabalho: jogo dramático, improvisação, técnicas de clown e análise de movimento. / This work is consequence of the plunge into the production and the shows universe of the Tear group‟s play The Stray Kings (Os Reis Vagabundos), from 1982, evocated by the creation crew as well as by its audience. This play is ponderated as a landmark of gaucho theatre where its director, Maria Helena Lopes used her main work concepts: play, improvisation, clowning and movement analysis.