Vol. 4 No. 7 (2023)

At this point, those of us who cultivate the humanistic disciplines and the so-called social sciences, should be aware of the enormous legacy of garbage science that, among other things, allows diagnosing behaviors in consumption, waste disposal, environmental policies, technical decisions over those of social needs. In the field of the country's social sciences, the absence of the enormous potential that garbology has to understand the environmental dynamics of today's metropolises seems to be more than an intellectual neglect, a lack of knowledge of it or in the worst case, a disregard for the methodological and theoretical deployment of this knowledge. The purpose of this issue is based on this call for attention not only to sociology, but to the social sciences in general.