SCORAI Europe Conference 2025: Discarding well? How grassroots waste initiatives advance intersectional justice

Cat Acheson represented After the Single Use at the SCORAI Europe Conference, an event bringing together over 400 researchers and practitioners working on sustainable consumption. The gathering focused on how to mainstream sustainable consumption across sectors, systems, and everyday practices.

Cat delivered a paper titled Discarding Well? How grassroots waste initiatives advance intersectional justice. Drawing on her wider research into waste, disposability, and environmental health, Cat highlighted how community-led waste practices reveal the uneven burdens of pollution and illuminate more equitable approaches to managing material discard. Her contribution opened conversations about how grassroots knowledge can inform policy, and how justice-oriented approaches to waste align with broader efforts to rethink material systems.