Waste is tangled up in Black life; waste can sometimes be the stuff with which one survives a night on the street, or it can be the “sign” of criminality. It is the stuff of complex infrastructural management as much as it is the stuff used to justify the settler logics of landfill expansion. In Virginia, where a waste-to-energy plant and a shipyard and a waste treatment plant all accumulate near neighborhoods of police brutality, disease, and criminalization, waste links histories of violence to the toxic present and the “environment” is shaped by logics of captivity. Attentive to how multiple orders of risk pool where waste is managed, this talk unravels how geography becomes a form of ecological punishment, or what I call the toxic capture of Black life.