Dismantled infrastructures in motion: socio-environmental trajectories of silo bag plastic waste in Argentina
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https://doi.org/10.5216/sec.v28.83042Abstract
This article presents an exploratory approach to the socioenvironmental trajectories of waste generated by silo bags, the largest plastic residue in Argentine agribusiness. It analyzes the life cycle of these materials in Argentina, with particular emphasis on the environmental impact of their use as a core storage infrastructure in agroindustrial activity. Drawing on a corpus of primary and secondary data, the article reconstructs the dynamics of production, accumulation, displacement, and reuse of plastics. It highlights the lack of a comprehensive national policy, the fragmented nature of subnational initiatives, and the role of both formal and informal actors in managing this waste. It argues that these materials do not follow linear paths but rather mobile and contingent ones, combining everyday practices with intermittent commercial circuits.
Keywords: silo bag; instant infrastructure; environment; plastic; agroindustrial model.
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