This article examines the practice of gleaning or waste picking, that is, retrieving, reusing and exchanging disposed consumer goods collected from kerbsides and rubbish sites. While the literature has tended to be divided along geographic lines with waste picking either associated with poor communities in the Global South or understood as anti-consumerism activism in the North, this article reframes gleaning as a set of shared global practices conventionally positioned outside of market-based conceptions of economy, value and labour. Discussing a wide array of gleaning activities from around the world, the key argument made is that the alternative economies and practices associated with hard waste reuse activities can be seen as modelling different ways of living (with waste), consuming and disposing that offer potential environmental, economic and social benefits. The article argues that waste reuse activities should be viewed as a set of practices or routines that offer a critique of narrow neoliberal conceptions of economics, enacting instead broader models of value and labour that speak to notions of the public, social and (within limits) planetary good. Furthermore, these post-consumption practices challenge traditional conceptions of passive commodity consumption and disposal, extending the global value chain of goods to incorporate practices of sorting, disassemblage, repair and repurposing. In so doing, it suggests a need (particularly in the Global North) to reconfigure our relationship with and understanding of the life cycles of goods and materials in our lives and to re-materialise our everyday engagements with things as they shift from commodities to waste and back again.

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收集全球：通过硬垃圾再利用的实践和经济重塑城市节俭

本文探讨了收集或废物拣选的做法，即检索、再利用和交换从路边和垃圾场收集的已处理消费品。虽然文献倾向于按照地理界限划分垃圾收集，要么与全球南方的贫困社区有关，要么被理解为北方的反消费主义激进主义，但本文将收集重新定义为一组通常位于市场之外的共享全球实践-基于经济、价值和劳动的概念。讨论来自世界各地的各种收集活动，提出的关键论点是，与硬废物再利用活动相关的替代经济和实践可以被视为模拟不同的生活方式（废物）、消费和处置，这些方式提供了潜在的环境, 经济和社会效益。文章认为，废物再利用活动应被视为一套实践或惯例，对狭隘的新自由主义经济学概念进行批判，而是制定更广泛的价值和劳动模型，这些模型涉及公众、社会和（在一定范围内）的概念。行星好。此外，这些消费后的做法挑战了被动商品消费和处置的传统观念，将商品的全球价值链扩展到包括分类、拆解、修理和再利用的做法。这样做时，