Reframing Garbage

Solid Waste Policy Formulation in Nova Scotia

Bibliographic Data

ID11966962
AuthorsTravis P Wagner (University of Southern Maine, corresponding author), Travis Wagner (Department of Environmental ScienceUniversity of Southern Maine, Gorham)
Year2007
Volume33
Issue4
Pages459-475
Publication date2007-12-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0317-0861 • E-ISSN: 1911-9917
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cpp.33.4.459
OpenAlexW2020669391
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited12

A series of powerful focusing events established solid waste as a national problem in Canada and a provincial and local problem in Nova Scotia. The traditional approach, expanding and improving disposal options, was rejected at the provincial and local levels. Instead, both levels simultaneously developed and implemented policies that focused on maximizing the recovery of solid waste. In both cases, crucial to policy adoption was the reframing of solid waste from a useless by-product to a valuable economic resource. This reframing was the result of the intervention of powerful policy actors, environmental justice concerns, media attention, and the sustained presence of the issue on the agenda. This case study provides important lessons to governments interested in developing an alternative policy for solid waste other than the traditional disposal-reliance paradigm

Business · Cognitive reframing · Economic Justice · Environmental planning · Garbage · Intervention (counseling · Municipal solid waste · Nova scotia · Political science · Product (mathematics · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · Waste management · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Environmental Science · Municipal Solid Waste Management · Urban Planning and Governance

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