The city’s waste economy is not a technical problem to be solved, but a negotiated social space shaped by class, migration, informality, and environmental governance. By Mehmet Enes Beşer In Bangkok, politics of plastic recycling are enacted not in institutional policy arenas or corporate boardrooms but in the urban margins of streets, dumps, canals, and squatter settlements—terrain often ignored in ...
Between Diplomacy and Dependency By Mehmet Enes Beşer In the face of mounting global pressure towards a binding plastic pollution treaty, ASEAN finds itself at a weak juncture—a testament to its economic ambitions as much as its environmental vulnerabilities. The region, having long been a strategic hub in global production and supply chain maneuvering, now increasingly sees itself becoming perceived ...