‘This is the age of waste:’ the show about our throwaway addictionIt is now 100 times more lucrative to mine gold from e-dumps than from the ground. After the stone age, the bronze age, the steam age and the information age, what material or innovation will most define the current era? “We are arguably living in the waste age,” says Justin McGuirk, the London museum’s chief curator, who has spent the last three years rifling through rubbish with co-curator Gemma Curtin to put together this timely show. “The production of waste is absolutely central to our way of life, a fundamental part of how the global economy operates. A general view shows used car tires on Sept. 17 at the Freetown waste management recycle factory in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Source: Taipei Times November 01, 2021 22:03 UTC