United We Can: Resource recovery, place and social enterprise

Tremblay, Crystal; Gutberlet, Jutta; Peredo, Ana María

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2009.09.006

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“…In other cases, recycling has been the livelihood from generation to generation and becomes a family tradition. Therefore, this activity becomes the common form of income generation for socioeconomically marginalized people that involves the collection of discarded material to reuse, resell, or recycle for money [13][14][15][16][17].…”

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Assessment of the Current Situation of Informal Recyclers and Recycling: Case Study Bogotá

2019

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The contribution of recyclers to the environment and the local economy is not recognized and they are not remunerated for the service they provide to the city. It is well known that informal collection contributes to the recycling of resources in a positive way, but it is also associated with several environmental, health, and social problems. In Colombia, these recyclers work informally. In 2016, Decree 596 was issued, which regulates the utilization of the public cleaning service and the transitory regime for the formalization of informal recyclers. The objective of this work is to evaluate the social and technical impact of recycling in the city of Bogotá three years after the regulations were issued. A study was carried out in order to study how recyclers have been affected by the new regulations after three years of validity as well as understand their perceptions of the evolution of recycling in the city. The study consisted of a series of surveys of recyclers from a statistical sample with 0.05 error that applied a mixed approach. Qualitative and quantitative analysis were included. This analysis was done in order to mix statistical results with deep analysis. The survey indicated that a low percentage of users (good 28%) performed good processes of separation at the source, which lowers the recovery of materials and prevents the potential use of many others. Likewise, it was evidenced that for a material to be sold or commercialized it depends significantly on the separation at the source. In addition, according to the perception of the respondents, society tends to discriminate against them, which leads to the conclusion that discrimination still exists between both the government and society. Finally, the current legislation has not been effective in its implementation and court declarations regarding recyclers as people with inherent rights have not yet been applied in Colombia.

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Assessment of the Current Situation of Informal Recyclers and Recycling: Case Study Bogotá

2019

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“…So far, therefore, the concept of landfills as secondary mines has remained mainly theoretical, although it has found application in some specific social contexts where ''participatory collective waste management'' (Gutberlet 2010;Tremblay et al 2010) has been found to produce positive social effects in the poorest range of population. In quantitative terms, however, this approach has led so far to only minuscule amounts of metals being recovered and recycled.…”

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Mineral Resource Depletion: A Coming Age of Stockpiling?

Bardi

Jakobi

Hettiarachchi

2016

Biophys Econ Resour Qual

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The gradual depletion of low cost (or ''high grade'') mineral ores is generating increasing extractive costs and diminishing economic returns. The market reacts to this situation either with high prices, which depress demand, or with very low prices (as it is happening at present) that reduce or eliminate profits for the extractive industry, which is forced to reduce production. As a consequence, it is becoming increasingly difficult to manage the remaining mineral resources in such a way to ensure a sufficient supply for the economy and to avoid price shocks originated by the vagaries of the market or by social or strategic conflicts. This is particularly important for critical and rare metals, such as those needed by the electronic industry and for vital tasks such as the conversion and the transmission of electrical energy produced by renewable (e.g. photovoltaic) plants. One possible reaction to these problems is stockpiling, that is keeping mineral resources stored above ground and readily available in order to provide a buffer against price and supply shocks. The present paper discusses several ways in which the market of mineral resources could evolve, in particular the concept of a ''metal bank'' that could be used to manage the supply of rare and sensitive minerals.

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“…Today, the most common situations where individuals in the world's developed countries participate in the recovery of discarded materials are among the marginalized and within the lowest socioeconomic classes (Gowan, 1997;Simpson-Herbert et al, 2005;Tremblay et al, 2010;Underwood, 1993). In many cases, the opportunity for individuals to participate in the reclamation of waste in affluent countries has been removed because of formal recycling programs which frequent ship waste to developing countries for downcycling and product remanufacturing, usually making new products that are sold back to consumers in the developed world (Grossman, 2006;Van Beukering and Curleed, 1998;Van Beukering and Boumann, 2001).…”

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The recycling of material culture today and during the Paleolithic

Amick

2015

Quaternary International

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Archaeologists are being increasingly challenged to apply their methods and perspectives to address contemporary global concerns, such as material consumption and recycling. The archaeological investigation of recycling can contribute to understanding its behavioral causes and situational contexts because it can reveal systematic patterning in its temporal, spatial, and formal dimensions. In this paper, I review some of the archaeological evidence of artifact recycling and a few lessons drawn from those studies, including general patterns in lithic recycling behavior and needs to address ambiguity in the definition of recycling, compounding factors of equifinality in lithic reduction, and recognizing opportunism in recycling behavior. This evidence is also used to consider the behavioral and environmental circumstances of patterned recycling in the broader study of material culture and human behavior. It is argued that archaeological studies can offer useful contributions to such universal theories and that archaeological explanations about recycling behavior would benefit from greater integration with the larger body of historical and social science studies on this topic.

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United We Can: Resource recovery, place and social enterprise

Cited by 38 publications

References 18 publications

Assessment of the Current Situation of Informal Recyclers and Recycling: Case Study Bogotá

Assessment of the Current Situation of Informal Recyclers and Recycling: Case Study Bogotá

Mineral Resource Depletion: A Coming Age of Stockpiling?

The recycling of material culture today and during the Paleolithic

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