STS Analysis of the Cause and Essence of Waste

Abstract

The waste problem is closely related to the traditional cognition of human waste accepted by the earth, the invention and use of plastics, the industrialization of social economic structure, urbanization and the development of science and technology. Ecologically, waste is the “external input” of ecosystem. From the view of nature, the waste problem can also be attributed to the anti-natural expansion of modern industrial civilization. Waste is also the end of the chain of “science-technology-product-industry-pollution and waste”. Waste is related to the ideology of industrial civilization. It is believed that it is the right of human beings to obtain resources from nature and discard wastes indefinitely. The ecological cost is placed outside the calculation scope of economic development, and nature is regarded as the raw material storehouse and disposal site.