Opening the bin #4
at the totem site of Le Mans
The fourth edition of Opening the Bin: “Life in a Bin: When Waste Reflects the Materiality of Societies” will take place from December 10 to 13, 2025, at the PEPR totem site at the Faculty of Letters in Le Mans.
To organize this event, the university is partnering with the multidisciplinary thematic network Waste, Values and Societies (DVS) of the CNRS, Spaces and Societies, ARGUMans – Management Research Laboratory, the Master’s in Waste and Circular Economy, Lancaster University, Le Mans City and Metropolis and La Fabrique-rêves de ville.
- Theme 1: Work and lifestyles linked to waste: contamination-toxicity / colonization by waste / humans and non-humans / waste workers
- Theme 2: Ordinary environmentalism and popular citizen innovations
- Theme 3: Waste as a power issue and an expression of unequal and conflictual relationships
- Theme 4: Waste and production systems: (re)structuring of territories and urban metabolism
- Theme 5: Life around the trash can: waste, a phenomenon that is both epistemological and material
OTB4 is planned within the PEPR Recyclage rudology center. The event is organized by a committee including Jean-Baptiste Bahers and Mathieu Durand, co-leaders of the PEPR’s SHS axis, as well as several other members of the program, such as Adeline Pierrat, Bénédicte Florin, Baptiste Monsaingeon…
Le Mans totem site organizes numerous events centered around rudology, the systematic study of waste, goods, and declassified spaces. A totem site is a space established in partnership with PEPR Recyclage’s academic and industrial partners, allowing activities to be hosted locally around the program’s research themes.
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