In this paper I present some results of an ethnographic research project I am conducting at the Mbeubeuss dump, set up in the 1960s in the outskirts of Dakar (Senegal). Over the years, Mbeubeuss has given rise to socio-economic relations which are (directly and indirectly) caught up with the treatment of waste, thereby contributing significantly to the urbanization of neighboring municipalities and the consolidation of migratory inflows from the country's rural areas. Moreover, since the 1960s, a community of boudiumane (waste-pickers) has lived and worked inside the dump site. The logistical organization and transport of waste to and from the landfill is understood here as a relational logistics, built and maintained thanks to the friendship and kinship relationships of the waste pickers with other figures of the informal waste market, such as, for example, wholesalers or carters. I consider this relational logistics as a privileged key to understanding the social and political life of waste in contemporary Senegal.
