Environmental Protection, Work, and Social Inclusion: Formalizing the Recycling of Urban Solid Waste in Buenos Aires

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-107
Author(s):  
Johanna Maldovan Bonelli
Keyword(s):  
Solid Waste ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Solid Waste ◽  
The City

The changes in the paradigms regarding urban solid waste management that have occurred in the past few decades have led to a reformulation of Argentine social, labor, and environmental policies. In the case of the city of Buenos Aires, the presence of thousands of “informal” recyclers dedicated to the recovery of recyclable materials for their subsistence has given a particular imprint to the design of these policies, the focus of which has been the social inclusion of these workers through the creation of cooperatives. An examination of the assumptions underlying the use of the concept of informality in the development of cooperatives for recycling from 2007 to 2013 shows that they are part of a complex process in which measures for increasing rights and protections are associated with various forms of labor instability. En las últimas décadas, los cambios en los paradigmas de manejo de residuos sólidos urbanos han dado lugar a una reformulación de las políticas sociales, laborales y ambientales argentinas. En el caso de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, la presencia de miles de recicladores “informales” dedicados a recuperar materiales reciclables para su subsistencia le ha dado un cariz particular al diseño de dichas políticas, las cuales buscan la inclusión social de estos trabajadores a través de la creación de cooperativas. Un análisis de los supuestos que subyacen el uso del concepto de informalidad en el desarrollo de las cooperativas para reciclaje de 2007 a 2013 muestra que son parte de un complejo proceso en el que las medidas para aumentar los derechos y grado de protección de los trabajadores se asocian a diversas formas de inestabilidad laboral.

scholarly journals GESTÃO DE RESÍDUOS SÓLIDOS: UMA REFLEXÃO SOBRE PRÁTICAS EM UM MUNICÍPIO DO INTERIOR DO ESTADO DO PARANÁ

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-69
Author(s):  
Myller Augusto Santos Gomes ◽  
Angelica Biagi Bertocco
Keyword(s):  
Solid Waste ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Waste Policy ◽  
Urban Solid Waste ◽  
The City ◽  
Selective Collection

The respective work is an investigation on practices of urban solid waste management in the city of Fernandes Pinheiro-PR, with the objective of understanding the problems related to the disposal and disposal of solid waste with the intention of promoting new projects that favor citizens with guidance and marketing of recyclable waste. Having projects in partnership with the population to solve the problems of incorrect waste disposal and encourage selective collection, reuse and recycling are guidelines provided for in the National Solid Waste Policy (PNRS). Through the elaboration of a diagnosis of the situation of solid waste in the municipality and documentary analysis, among these, practices carried out by the public authorities were verified and the actions are being carried out, still potentiating good projects and proposing continuous improvement actions along with the adoption of new problem-oriented practices.  

scholarly journals Solid waste management and contemporary challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (72) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marconi Vieira da Silva ◽  
Elfany Reis do Nascimento Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Solid Waste ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Southern Bahia ◽  
Urban Solid Waste

In the present study we analyze and discuss socioenvironmental impacts arising from inadequate management of urban solid waste in the Brazilian Discovery Coast, southern Bahia. We also discuss the challenges to be overcome to promote proper management, highlighting the need for social inclusion of waste pickers. Methodological procedures consisted of an applied and exploratory research, through a review of specialized scientific literature. We also used secondary data available at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and at the National Sanitation Information System, and applied a structured online questionnaire to municipal managers of public sanitation services. The cities under study only transfer the waste generated in urban centers to distant areas, in dumps, negatively affecting the environment and public health. There are neither management units nor incentive practices or support programs aimed at recyclable material collectors. Due to the weaknesses and the socioenvironmental, cultural, and historical importance of the area under study, the creation of public policies with broad popular participation is urgently needed to promote a fairer, healthier, and more sustainable development.

scholarly journals MANAJEMEN SAMPAH PADAT DI KOTA BANDUNG DAN METODE ALTENATIF PENGOLAHANNYA

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-179
Author(s):  
Sunasih Mulianingsih
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
City Government ◽  
Rapid Population Growth ◽  
Waste Production ◽  
Urban Solid Waste ◽  
Fertilizer Material ◽  
The City

The problem of mucipal waste management in the city of Bandung has been an unsolved problem to date. The rapid population growth plus many new arrivals to the city of Bandung have increased waste production from year to year. According to the Department of Environment and Sanitation, the city of Bandung produces around 1477 metric tons of solid waste per day, of which 63% is organic matter. Garbage collection in the city of Bandung is managed by the city government through the BUMD which handles it. About 44.3% of solid waste management in Bandung city is composted to produce fertilizer material, 54.7% is rejected and dumped in landfills. 23% of non-organic waste is mostly recycled and around 11.3% is taken to landfills, while 14% of residual waste such as B3 is dumped. This investigation also includes an analysis of the economic benefits that can be realized by implementing incineration and a discussion of the challenges faced in the city of Bandung to implement changes to the existing urban solid waste management system.

scholarly journals Communication and Mobility: Mobile-Mediated Displacement Experiences in Buenos Aires

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-122
Author(s):  
Lucas Durr Missau
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Transportation Applications

This article aims to identify and describe the specificities of the urban mobility experience of inhabitants who use transportation apps to move around the city of Buenos Aires taking into account social, economic and cultural aspects of their experiences. We seek elements to understand how the use of these apps is part of people’s daily lives and, ultimately, to what extent it contributes to social inclusion, revealing the social aspects that are at stake. Intending to mobilize communication studies, theoretically, this paper articulates the new paradigm of mobilities in the social sciences with cultural studies. We accompanied nine participants of the study, from the first event of their days to the last, during a daily journey. When accompanying them around the city, the collection instruments included interviews and video recording of travel moments from the perspective of the participants themselves, who wore glasses with a hidden video camera. Based on the narratives of participants’ life stories during commuting, we describe how imagining, adapting and belonging to a strange and at times hostile environment relates to mobile-mediated travel experiences. Therefore, we describe processes in which the narratives about the experiences of migration and the daily flows of displacement are articulated with the mediation of transportation applications.

scholarly journals El “cirujeo”, un camino informal de recuperación de residuos. Buenos Aires, 2002-2003 / Scavenging: An Informal Method of Waste Recovery. Buenos Aires, 2002-2003

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verónica Paiva
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Waste Recovery ◽  
Very Old ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Informal Method ◽  
The City ◽  
Recycled Waste

El artículo aborda la problemática de la gestión de los residuos sólidos domiciliarios de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Dicha gestión está regulada por un marco jurídico muy antiguo que impide la recuperación o el reciclaje en casi todas las fases del circuito de recolección, transporte y disposición final. En forma paralela a la gestión oficial, se ha extendido una vía de recolección y recuperación informal, que ha llevado a cabo algunas personas pertenecientes a los sectores más pobres de nuestra sociedad, quienes encuentran en la venta de los residuos recuperados un camino para su supervivencia diaria. En el presente artículo describimos las características de este circuito informal en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, las rutas, calles, horarios y tipos de residuos recogidos, y analizamos el fenómeno no solamente como una manifestación de la pobreza, sino como un camino alternativo para la recolección diferenciada de los residuos sólidos de la ciudad. AbstractThe purpose of this article is to discuss the issue of the Solid Waste Management in the City of Buenos Aires. This Management is ruled by a very old legislation which forbids the recovery and/or recycling in all the fases of the circuit. In parallel to the Govermental Management, an informal way of collection and recovery of the waste has been developed, carried out by people belonging to the poorest sectors who discovered, in the sale of the recycled waste, a means for surviving. This article outlines the characteristics of this informal circuit of the City of Buenos Aires – the routes, streets, timetables and types of waste – analysing this phenomenon not only as a way of living of the poor but also as an alternative way to a differential collect of the solid waste in the city.

Application of a ‘Recycling Exchange’ instrument to compensate waste pickers in Brazil via a first payment for urban environmental services programme

2021 ◽  
pp. 0734242X2110612
Author(s):  
Alice Libânia S Dias ◽  
Lisete Celina Lange ◽  
Aline Souza Magalhães
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Production Chain ◽  
The Public ◽  
Positive Externalities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
Waste Pickers

This article presents an approach to compensate waste pickers in the informal sector of Minas Gerais state, Brazil, via a Payment for Urban Environmental Services (PUES) instrument, called ‘Recycling Exchange’. The aim is to evaluate the effects of this instrument on the amount of waste diverted from landfill and reintroduced into the production chain, and to increase recognition of waste pickers’ contributions to the state’s economy. It was found that the ‘Recycling Exchange’ met the fundamental objectives of a PUES: the double social and economic benefits of the social inclusion of waste pickers in the execution of the public policy for solid waste management, and inducing (in the case of glass), ensuring and stabilising (plastic and paper) continuity of the activity of selling recyclables in times of wide price fluctuations for these recyclables. The instrument enhanced the provision of this environmental service and the positive externalities associated with recycling.

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