In the Waste: On Blackness and (Being) Plastic

“In the Waste: On Blackness and (Being) Plastic” is an homage and response to Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Sharpe proposes wake work as an analytic to methodologically reorient Black living in the afterlife of slavery, a “past that is not yet past.” Waste work here enters to explore the continuities of slave ships and plantations, genocidal clearings, toxic wastes, objects, and disposable bodies, providing an opening to re/consider the relationship between Blackness, animals and (other) abjects, namely plastic. If abjects can co-conspire in one another’s disposability, how can these fraught relations of ejection be reconfigured on new terms? By tending to the multifold deaths and disposals that exist along the subject-eject-object continuum in the wake of the slave ship and the extractive, settler colonial state, I argue that otherwise ways of living and dying emerge beyond the linear ecocidal model, perhaps ones that refuse disposability altogether.

The Rocks and Stones Themselves . . .

A short reflection on the emergence of the environmental justice movement from the Toxic Wastes and Race report and Michigan’s Conference on Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards. These events and the movement are framed in the context of the long struggle for racial justice in the United States.

Application of New Materials for Red Mud Immobilization

The article analyses the application of a composite material based on magnesite cement and red mud for the production of high-resistant materials and structures. Technical characteristics are given proving that this composite has several advantages comparing with other materials and opens up new opportunities for the disposal of toxic wastes and developing new materials with unique characteristics. The advantage of this direction is that the composite material created on the basis of “red mud” has increased strength and water resistance; also, it has the structure of a homogeneous monolithic stone. A wide range of applications of neutralized waste is an undeniable positive factor.

Contradictions of Transnational Trash Trade Regulations in Indonesia

This study aims to examine the contradictory regulation regarding trade of waste in indonesia. Principle what is described in Article 69 paragraph (1) letter C Law no. 32 of 2009 concerning Environmental Protection and Management which states that everyone is prohibited from entering waste originating from outside the Republic of Indonesia into the territory of the Republic of Indonesia. Based on the principle of lex superior derogate legi inferior, there are contradictory arrangements. Then the Minister of Trade Regulation No. 84 of 2019 concerning Provisions for the Import of Non Hazardous and Toxic Wastes as Industrial Raw Materials in conjunction with the Minister of Trade Regulation No. 92 of 2019 concerning Amendments to the Minister of Trade Regulation No. 84 of 2019 potentially for a judicial review. Regulation is needed that doesn’t neglect the environment to support the economy. But also doesn’t hinder the economy for focus on the environment. The point is that the existence of rules that bridge the interests of humans and the environment is the best solution so that their existence is maintained.

Environmental Pollution: Assessing the Criminal Liability of Corporations

The Supreme Court sentenced PT Dongwoo Enviromental Indonesia (PT DEI) for disposing of hazardous and toxic wastes polluting the environment. Meanwhile, PT Adei Plantation & Industry (PT API) was charged with crime for the destruction of land damaging the environment. The research method used is normative legal research, which focuses on two approaches: case approach and conceptual approach. The results show that, first, PT DEI and PT API are charged criminally represented by the board as functioneel daderschap or directing mind and will. Second, PT DEI is charged with subsidized charges, while PT API is charged to alternative charges. Third, PT DEI and PT API are said to have committed a criminal act because management either the directors or regular employees commits a criminal offense for and on behalf of the corporation or in favor of the corporation. Fourth, to prove a corporation fault is through the aggregation of management mistakes or controlling personnel or regular employees in the corporation structure. Fifth, the principal penalty imposed on PT DEI is a fine of Rp 1.500,000,000. Similarly, PT API is fined Rp 650.000.000. Sixth; PT DEI is charged to additional crime in the form of deprivation of profits and closure of the company while PT API is an improvement due to crime. Seventh, with the closing of the company, the judges did not order the executors to liquidate the assets of PT DEI. Eighth, the imposition of the company's closing sanctions should take into account the impacts, such as the termination of employee relation and the interests of shareholders.