Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi

Introduction 1

1 In the beginning was design

Or the waste of order-building 9

2 Are there too many of them?

Or the waste of economic progress 34

3 To each waste its dumping site

Or the waste of globalization 63

4 Culture of waste 94

Notes 134

About the Author

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds and the University of Warsaw.

Reviews

"This is a rather brilliant, dense and chaotic meditation on ideas of waste in our time of what Bauman terms "liquid modernity" ... A sparkling and highly suggestive read." The Guardian