ABSTRACT
Making space for waste is a social and political process that mobilises the notion of spatial justice with implications for the sustainability of the environments we inhabit. This chapter brings attention to the political conditions necessary for the reproduction of polluting economies, and thus contributes to link local environmental struggles with mitigation of environmental damage. It discusses literatures on environmental justice, in conjunction with classical analyses on the social production of space and place. The chapter looks at spatial justice through the perspective of waste and border theories, at different scales: from intimate and urban levels to wider global and extra-terrestrial scales. The belief that the leftovers of human activity may disappear requires a particular conception of space. This spatial imagination manifests in the way the sea, the atmosphere and outer space have for long been conceived and treated as infinite dumps.
