March 6, 2021
Garbage, trash, discards, waste—humans create it with nearly everything we do, and it impacts our ecosystems and our communities in diverse and often unanticipated ways.
The long-term implications of our severance of relationships with possessions was the topic of discussion for hundreds of experts, faculty, students, alumni and community members from around the world who gathered virtually March 6 for the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment’s 2021 Lear-Conant Symposium, “DISCARDED: Unmasking and Understanding the Waste Stream.”