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How our perception of waste shapes our reality

By John Scanlan, Research Fellow in Place and Culture, University of Central Lancashire

Recently, a leaflet was delivered to my home from Nuclear Waste Services, the company that is overseeing the final disposal of some of the most dangerous waste that exists. It reminded me that the small village where I live in Cumbria is one of three proposed locations for the burial of nuclear waste. If realised, it would be a site that has to be secure and safe for at least 100,000 years.

Such a timescale makes the markers…

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