Sustainable solid waste management toward an inclusive society: Integration of the informal sector

Sembiring, Emenda; Nitivattananon, Vilas

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2009.12.010

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“…The success of recycling in the IWM system is influenced by several factors, such as the organisation of the IS (waste pickers, collectors, agents) (23), encouragement of the recycling market (24), increased professionalism in recycling companies (25), financial support for recycling (26), waste pickers' collection and recycling business in the surroundings (27), the existence of drop-off and buy-back centres (28), the distance to the bring bank (29), collection of recyclables supported by companies (30), efficiency of collection system (31), and presence of low-cost recycling technologies (32). In Indonesia, and in many developing countries, most recycling activity is done by the IS.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In relation to the integration of the informal enterprise sector as a part of recycling activity in the formal system of waste management, social inclusion is very important [24]. According to Sembiring [24], the conceptual approach refers to five factors (forms of capital): financial capital (36), physical capital (37), human capital (38), public infrastructure capital (39), and social capital (40), as a precondition of social inclusion.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Sembiring [24], the conceptual approach refers to five factors (forms of capital): financial capital (36), physical capital (37), human capital (38), public infrastructure capital (39), and social capital (40), as a precondition of social inclusion. However, the above view does not discuss the mechanism of IS involvement in the formal system (government) of waste management.…”

Section: Factors Affecting Of Iwmmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Review of the Influencing Factors of Integrated Waste Management

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Megantara²,

F.M.S.³

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Solid waste management (SWM) in various cities around the world is still a serious and complex problem. Currently, SWM causes problems not only in an environmental context but also in social and economic contexts. Therefore, integrated waste management (IWM) is an option that needs to be explored in municipal SWM. In this regard, it is necessary to develop models of an IWM system to integrate the formal system (government) with non-formal systems (informal sector/IS and community-based activity). To integrate all three groups' roles in an integrated system, as theoretically there are 59 factors that influence IWM. However, not all factors are relevant to the implementation in Bandung municipality because every city and country has different situations and priority problems. For the case in Bandung municipality, based on studies, there are only 17 factors that influence IWM, i.e. waste generation, infrastructure, handled waste, reduction of waste, residual handling, final processing site, population/source of waste, mind-set and lifestyle, socialisation, recognition of IS, organisation of IS, clarity for the role of all stakeholders, accessibility of waste, quantity and quality of recyclable waste, price of recyclable material, waste picker income, and incentives or financial loans.

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Section: Factors Affecting Of Iwmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Factors Affecting Of Iwmmentioning

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Section: Factors Affecting Of Iwmmentioning

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“…The most interesting approach to the management of municipal solid waste in the future probably is to promote a more intensive inclusion of the formal scavengers into the municipal solid waste system along with correct source separation of waste into organic and recyclable components. This will be a lengthy exercise because it involves attitudinal changes in people and will have to be carried out with careful planning (Sembiring & Nitivattananon, 2010). The general public will first have to be sensitized toward the whole concept and educated regarding the need for and advantages of correctly separating waste (Damghani et al, 2008).…”

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Urban Solid Waste Management in Caxias Do Sul/Brazil: Practices and Challenges

Poletto

Mori²,

Schneider³

et al. 2016

J. Urb. and Environ. Engng

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Abstract:Solid waste management is becoming a challenge for the cities' authorities in developing countries mainly due to the rapid economic growth and population increasing. In cities of the developing world, the informal sector plays an important role in the management of urban solid waste. This work examines the participation of scavengers in an integrated municipal solid waste management system. The paper is based on direct field observations, interviews with scavengers and characterization of the urban solid waste generated in Caxias do Sul. The partnership between municipal government and local scavengers were also evaluated as well as the contribution of the scavengers in the urban solid waste management system. The study reveals that it is necessary to realize a campaign for improving the waste segregation at source. The infrastructure of the scavengers associations need to be improved and finally the scavengers need to be more deeply involved in the policies associated with the urban solid waste management system adopted in the city.

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“…First and most obviously, it requires that someone has the means and motivation to recognise in something sufficient value to warrant the responsibilities of taking ownership of it, when someone else has judged it to be of too little value to warrant retaining ownership, or even to warrant taking the trouble to sell the thing to realise residual financial value. In many countries, including in the developed world, informal scavenging of discarded goods provides a livelihood for sectors of the population alienated from more formal economic opportunities (Reno 2009, Tremblay et al 2007, Sembiring and Nitivattananon (2010), Guttberlet 2008, Whitson 2011. More pertinent for our purpose here, however, is what close grained empirical work reveals about how the people throwing stuff away through channels open to scavenging can be using those channels specifically in the hope that their responsibility to the materials they are discarding can be realised by someone else putting their discards to good use (Lane et al, 2009;Lane 2011).…”

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Stewardship of things: The radical potential of product stewardship for re-framing responsibilities and relationships to products and materials

Lane

Watson

2012

Geoforum

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Abstract:In the context of broad-based concerns about the need to move towards a more sustainable materials economy, particularly as they are expressed in debates around ecological modernisation (EM), we argue that product stewardship has radical potential as a means to promote significant change in the relationship between society and the material world. We focus on two important dimensions that have been neglected in approaches to product stewardship to date. Firstly, we argue that immanent within the basic concept of stewardship is a problematisation of dominant understandings of property ownership in neoliberal market economies. In the space opened up by notions of stewardship, different ways of enacting both rights and responsibilities to products and materials emerge which have potential to advance the sustainability of material economies. Secondly, through exploration of existing expressions of product stewardship, we uncover a neglected scale of action. Both policy and dominant articulations of EM focus primarily on the efficiency of production processes; and secondarily, the attitudes and behaviours of individual consumers. Missing from this is the 'meso-scale' of social collectives including households, neighbourhoods, more distributed communities and small scale social enterprises. Based on a review of existing research from Australia and the UK, including our own, we argue that understanding of embedded practices of material responsibility at the household scale can both reinvigorate the concept of product stewardship as a potentially radical intervention, and reveal the potential of the meso-scale as a challenging but worthwhile realm of policy intervention.Stewardship of things: The radical potential of product stewardship for re-framing responsibilities and relationships to products and materials Lane and Watson 2

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Sustainable solid waste management toward an inclusive society: Integration of the informal sector

Cited by 168 publications

References 9 publications

Review of the Influencing Factors of Integrated Waste Management

Review of the Influencing Factors of Integrated Waste Management

Urban Solid Waste Management in Caxias Do Sul/Brazil: Practices and Challenges

Stewardship of things: The radical potential of product stewardship for re-framing responsibilities and relationships to products and materials

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