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A reflection on the first meeting of the Infrastructures of Reuse cluster, exploring three historical sources that reveal how sterility, labour, and disposability became embedded in modern healthcare.

Dr. Sett is the first and only biomedical waste treatment facility in Senegal. Located in Sinda, 68 km from Dakar in the Thiès region, it enables public and private medical facilities to manage all their biomedical waste in a responsible and sustainable manner. 

Dani Farrow presented research on reuse, circular economy narratives, and the infrastructures of disposability at a symposium on the anthropology of plastics at the University of Aarhus.

A field visit to Mbeubeuss reveals the scale, labour and risks shaping Dakar’s only dumpsite and the presence of biomedical waste in everyday waste streams.