Rashida Kamal, Morgan Mueller
Trash Club is a community platform for the ongoing investigation of waste in New York City and beyond. Its founders are Rashida Kamal, Emily Lin, and Morgan Mueller in January 2020. At its core, Trash Club is driven by the idea that "there is no away." It is an attempt to grapple with the objects, places, and people that fall outside of the usual systems of counting, inventory, and categorization. Because they are deeply committed to the idea that this reckoning cannot happen in isolation, they have focused much of their efforts on building community with practitioners of disparate disciplines. Along with expanding and developing their investigative and creative practices, they hope to serve as a platform for neighboring scholars, artists, and strangers to ask good questions about discard.