摘要：What should low-income neighborhoods do with the one material resource which they possess in abundance – namely, society's wastes. Two opposite answers are at times presented as part of the same strategy of sustainable community development. Some wastes are the basis for a business, adding value to discarded materials. Other wastes are the cause for a crusade, demanding environmental justice for the impacted areas. When does a community view other people's wastes as an asset, and when does it experience waste as an assault.
