Labor and Structure: Overlooked Aspects of Recycling in NYC - with Sam MacBride

Public education and economic viability are two important features of making recycling work in NYC. but the often unseen labor of custodians, collectors and sorters is no less important; as in the physical set-u of buildings, streets, and public spaces.

Join Samantha MacBride, sociologist, NYU lecturer and Deputy Director of Recycling for the NYC Department of Sanitation, for a discussion of how labor and structure enable successful recycling and how these these seemingly "background" issues are critically important to the viability of sustainable waste management.