The impact of privatization of solid waste management on the Zabaleen garbage                 collectors of Cairo

Fahmi, Wael Salah

doi:10.1177/095624780501700212

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“…Most studies into the informal sector in SWM look at the roles of unregistered, unregulated and casual family/community enterprises and individuals in recycling of waste and in thus adding value to recovered waste materials (Baudouin, Bjerkli, Habtemariam, & Chekole, 2010;Fahmi, 2005;Nas & Jaffe, 2004;Nzeadibe & Chukwuedozie, 2010;Rogerson, 2000;Sudhir, Srinivasan, & Muraleedharan, 1997;Taylor, 1999;Wilson, Araba, Chinwah, & Cheeseman, 2009;Wilson et al, 2006). Accordingly, few studies have been devoted to the analysis of the actors in the informal sector involved at the primary level of solid waste collection (Medina, 2005).…”

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Informal waste collection and its co-existence with the formal waste sector: The case of Kampala, Uganda

Katusiimeh

Burger

Mol

2013

Habitat International

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Informal waste collection and its co-existence with the formal waste sector: The case of Kampala, Uganda

Katusiimeh

Burger

Mol

2013

Habitat International

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“…This has resulted in a complex value chain within the Zabaleen community (Conrad and Joos, 2010;Didero, 2012;Schluep, 2014). The Zabaleen have received much international attention recently, particularly because of a long running 'conflict' with official efforts since 2002 to contract waste collection and disposal in Cairo to international private companies (Fahmi, 2005;Fahmi andSutton, 2006, 2010;Ishkandar and Tjell, 2009). The Zabaleen in Cairo have been used as a case study in two major international GIZ studies of the informal recycling sector, one focusing on the economic aspects (CID Consulting Group, 2008;Scheinberg et al, 2010Scheinberg et al, , 2011Gunsilius et al, 2011a) and the other on integration opportunities (Gerdes and Gunsilius, 2010; Published online http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2016.07.006 Gunsilius et al, 2011b).…”

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Applying value chain analysis to informal sector recycling: A case study of the Zabaleen

Jaligot

Wilson

Cheeseman

et al. 2016

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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A methodology has been developed to apply value chain analysis (VCA) to the informal recycling sector, and demonstrated using the Zabaleen in Cairo, Egypt as a case study. The VCA methodology provides a 'toolkit' comprising four stages. The first involves mapping the value chain and has been demonstrated using the recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles as the particular example. Stage 2 tabulates the value added at each step in the value chain; this has been demonstrated for different types of plastics as well as other recycled fractions. Stage 3 identifies and then applies a set of indicators for the development of the informal sector recycling value chain in order to address technical and socio-economic challenges. The indicators proposed are in three categories: connections in the value chain, waste valorisation and the enabling environment. Stage 4 involves developing a system dynamic map that shows connections between the indicators, and the stocks and flow variables in the value chain. In particular, it identifies the most highly connected indicators on which to focus interventions, as these are likely to have the greatest impact on the overall system. For the Zabaleen, these are improving the quality of waste inputs into the value chain through source segregation, optimising access to waste and upgrading recycling activities through access to finance and technical knowledge.

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“…They emphasise the casualisation of sub-contracted co-operative labour, and point to the sanitisation, and displacement and re-settlement of urban waste workers, and they highlight the deleterious effects of these changes on the livelihoods of well-established groups of waste-pickers such as Cairo's Zabaleen [104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111].…”

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From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies

Gregson

Crang

2015

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

116

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The impact of privatization of solid waste management on the Zabaleen garbage collectors of Cairo

Cited by 48 publications

References 2 publications

Informal waste collection and its co-existence with the formal waste sector: The case of Kampala, Uganda

Informal waste collection and its co-existence with the formal waste sector: The case of Kampala, Uganda

Applying value chain analysis to informal sector recycling: A case study of the Zabaleen

From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies

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