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Etienne Dufour holds a PhD in planning from the Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Under the supervision of Sabine Barles, he wrote a thesis entitled “The end of recycling? It focuses on the history of “biogeochemical policies” during the 20th century, i.e. the orientation of urban organic waste treatment. In particular, he analyzes the disappearance or marginalization of agricultural recycling of garbage and human excreta in the Ile-de-France region after the Second World War. Since September 2024, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Reims-Champagne Ardenne. Working with Baptiste Monsaingeon, he is investigating the history of plastics and their appearance in the world of agriculture and urban planning. He is a associate researcher of the Laboratory Géographie-cités.