This article unpacks the concept of rendering to explain how disposal produces value out of waste materials. Rendering draws attention to the management of meaning attached to waste materials, showing how cultures of environmental sustainability and market capitalism shape their valorisation during disposal. To illustrate this, I draw on ethnographic data from research on the operation of corpse disposal in England. This research reveals three mechanisms of rendering: (1) quantification where economic rationale is entangled with the legal-rational authority of environmental metrics; (2) containment where specific spaces of disposal and the movement between them shape the flow of meaning; and (3) the often hidden labour techniques that become a part of the value of the waste. Rendering provides a fuller account of disposal as a production process, which should be at the heart of sociological work that speaks to the often unbalanced relationship between environment and capitalism.

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提炼、废物处理和价值生产

本文解析了渲染的概念，以解释处置如何从废物中产生价值。渲染引起了人们对废弃材料意义的管理的关注，展示了环境可持续性和市场资本主义文化如何在处置过程中塑造其价值。为了说明这一点，我利用了英国尸体处理操作研究中的人种学数据。本研究揭示了三种渲染机制：（1）量化，其中经济原理与环境指标的法律理性权威纠缠在一起； (2) 遏制，其中特定的处置空间和它们之间的运动塑造了意义的流动； (3) 经常隐藏的劳动技术成为废物价值的一部分。渲染提供了对作为生产过程的处置的更全面的描述，这应该是社会学工作的核心，它讲述了环境与资本主义之间经常不平衡的关系。