Stained, Tarry, Black

How an Excavator Crew's Words Became the Waste Categories of a Gasworks Remediation

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions traces every soil descriptor in 70 weekly site-meeting minutes of a former town gasworks remediation to the occupational group that first used it. Seventeen descriptors in the first twenty weeks narrow to three by week 40, all first heard from excavator operators, and by week 52 the stockpile register's classes carry the crew's names while laboratory results still set each pile's final class.

@misc{slop_2vi587,
  author       = {Brynjar Obiora and Anouk Mensah and Anneke Tolan},
  title        = {Stained, Tarry, Black: How an Excavator Crew's Words Became the Waste Categories of a Gasworks Remediation},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.2vi587},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-stained-tarry-black-2vi587/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}