PERC Co-director Dr Farrelly travelled to Helsingborg, Sweden to attend the ‘Opening the Bin’ Conference. The three-day conference was well attended by social scientists and humanities waste researchers who gathered to discuss “the places, roles and trajectories as well as the meanings, practices, and vocabularies of waste in culture and society.” Dr Farrelly presented on the need for more transdisciplinary waste research. It was a pleasure to attend a conference where everyone ‘spoke the same language’ and shared similar concerns and perspectives on global waste challenges. Professor Myra Hird and Professor Gaye Hawkins (also a keynote presenter at PERC’s ‘Lives and Afterlives of Plastics’ conference in June-July this year) gave excellent keynote speeches at the conference. Dr Farrelly’s paper is likely to be submitted to a Cambridge Scholars anthology along with a selection of other conference papers later this year.