Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through

Editors ’ note: This commentary is part of a series initially presented at the Waste/Economies/Ecology hybrid international symposium at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia in February 2023. The symposium was part of the research project ‘ Investigating Inno-vative Waste Economies: Redrawing the Circular Economy ’ funded by the Australian Research Council. The symposium brought together academics and artists from around the world who are thinking with waste to enable novel response to its ethical and political challenges. We thank all our contributors to this special commentary section for their participation and thinking