Abstract
Two anti-incineration movements that happened in the Peoples’ Republic of China have two different characteristics. The K city conflict is aggressive, and the G city movement is peaceful. Nonetheless, both in the two movements, recognitional justice, procedural justice, and distributional justice were broken. One dimension break leads to another and finally forms a chain of environmental injustice. Few of the former studies analyze environmental injustice from structural injustice theory, and this paper attempts to clarify the causes of environmental injustice in China from this perspective. This paper argues that the current waste policy of local governments in China is a choice made based on several objective constraints, such as the actual status of waste disposal and the policy from the central government. Incineration priority policy and incineration for 100% disposal policy have made local government consider a benefit-oriented position, building large-scale incineration complex. This position enhances local government reproducing the unfair structure between the beneficial sphere and costly sphere and finally causes an unintended chain of environmental injustice.
