Innovative social business of selective waste collection in Brazil: Cleaner production and poverty reduction

Rebehy, Perla Calil Pongeluppe Wadhy; Costa, André Lucirton; Campello, Carlos Alberto Gabrielli Barreto; Espinoza, Diego de Freitas; Neto, Miguel João

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.03.173

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“…It must be highlighted that there are a few Brazilian cities with selective waste collection (Rebehy et al, 2017). However, in Brazil, some municipalities are making investments in separate collection and WC support.…”

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“…The authors concluded that RJMA had saved US$7 million in one year with public collecting services. Rebehy et al (2017) point out that municipalities that perform separate collection serve only 15% of the Brazilian population with municipal programmes in Brazil. Besides which, many individual collectors (waste pickers) are disorganized and in precarious labour conditions.…”

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Stakeholder views of source separation collection programme in East São Paulo, Brazil

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The investigation of the views of the stakeholders involved in the municipal solid waste separate collection programme (CP) performed in the East Zone of the city of São Paulo is presented in this paper. Aiming to obtain the necessary information to be analysed, interviews with the manager of the Municipal Urban Cleaning Authority (MUCA) of the city, with leaders of recycling worker cooperatives (WCs), and citizens were performed using semi-structured questionnaires. The analysis was performed using the software “IRAMUTEQ”. The results show that, in the view of the manager of the MUCA of the city and the WCs’ leaders, the low adhesion of the population to the separate CP is the greatest obstacle to a further expansion of the existing programme. At the same time, the citizens have blamed the low diffusion made by the municipality about the separate CP in the East Zone of São Paulo. Thus, it can be concluded that the separate CP available in the East Zone of São Paulo is still flawed; since neither the public power, the WCs, nor the population are satisfied and point out several flaws. This situation highlights the need to establish better venues for discussion between the population, WCs, and the municipality to jointly design a separate collection system with a more participatory approach.

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“…In countries from the Global South this narrative has been key to reinforce the role of entrepreneurs and technologists in identifying new niches in the recycling market (Kowszyk and Maher 2018;Oyake-Ombis, van Vliet, and Mol 2015;Pereira de Carvalho and Barbieri 2012) and by greening the outdated solid waste management systems run by local governments (Potdar et al 2016;Scheinberg 2011). However, waste pickers' roles within those innovations dynamics get limited to a mere instrumental participation, providing a trained workforce in collecting and sorting activities to feed the new recycling flows (Rateau 2017;Rebehy et al 2017;Wilson, Velis, and Cheeseman 2006).…”

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Contesting informality through innovation “from below”: epistemic and political challenges in a waste pickers cooperative from Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Carenzo

2020

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

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This paper draws on an ethnographic research to critically analyze the process of formalization of the so-called "informal" recyclers within the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. It claims that their recognition by governmental and nongovernmental agencies has been mostly oriented to crystallize their role as a workforce in the lower shackles of the recycling value chain. In contrast, other valuable contributions of waste pickers, such as the development of a practical pedagogy towards the segregation and recycling of materials, or the design and manufacturing of their own technological devices, have not been yet properly recognized or strengthened in the same way. Therefore, to approach the waste management field by focusing on the innovations dynamic is revealing of to what extent it is shaped by asymmetric power relations, which include epistemic and techno-cognitive dimensions. Drawing on the notion of epistemic (in)justice, this paper provides a critical reflection on the drivers and obstacles that shape innovation skills aimed at waste management, and thus, define which actors are to be legitimated as "innovators" within this field and which are not. Finally, I share some open reflections about some policy guidelines that could help to profit from the rich body of technological experience and knowledge elaborated within waste picker's grassroots organizations. At the same time, I will highlight the specific contribution of an

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“…Notably, the sixth company (supermarket) had received an international award for reusing resources, and only 3% of the entire company's waste is disposed of in landfill sites. According to Rebehy et al (2017), the management of urban solid waste in Brazil still faces many challenges in the process of transitioning to a model based on management with recycling and reuse.…”

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Innovation ecosystems and measures aimed at environmental sustainability: Cidade Pedra Branca case study

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Silva

Cubas

2019

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The proposal described herein is aimed at technological innovation, with a focus on product sustainability. The object of this study was six companies from the innovation ecosystem Cidade Pedra Branca, which sought to identify socio-environmental actions that also have the goal of generating significant results in economic terms. We concluded that, in general, the companies in Cidade Pedra Branca are committed to achieving social, environmental, and economic sustainability.

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Innovative social business of selective waste collection in Brazil: Cleaner production and poverty reduction

Cited by 72 publications

References 32 publications

Stakeholder views of source separation collection programme in East São Paulo, Brazil

Stakeholder views of source separation collection programme in East São Paulo, Brazil

Contesting informality through innovation “from below”: epistemic and political challenges in a waste pickers cooperative from Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Innovation ecosystems and measures aimed at environmental sustainability: Cidade Pedra Branca case study

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