Combining political ecology, resource geography, and environmental justice approaches, this panel on “waste regime” seeks to understand the economic, political, and material dynamics through which waste is produced, conceptualized, and politicized (Gille 2007, 9). Grounded by concrete ethnographic research on garbage, everyday experiences of ordinary people, governmental and non-governmental actors, development projects tactics, and so on, we ask what values are embedded in these roles played by many institutions and actors who locate and position themselves differentially in the local and global processes of treating, sorting, trading, and recycling waste. We also ask how certain value prevails whereas others are undermined and further how “value regime” (Appadurai 1986) operates in different ontological, cultural, material, and political settings. Geographically and geopolitically, the panel is open to all varieties, including but not limited to Europe, Nepal, Tibet, the U.S. and transnational organizations, as well as capitalist, (post)socialist, and tribal regimes. We aim…