Waste pickers organizations and municipal selective waste collection: Sustainability indicators

Zon, Jéssica Luiza Nogueira; Leopoldino, Chaila Jacobsen; Yamane, Luciana Harue; Siman, Renato Ribeiro

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2020.08.023

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“…In previous studies carried out in Brazil's Southeastern region, such as Barros and Silveira (2019), it was possible to identify a municipality with a very unfavorable self-financing indicator and another with a very unfavorable rating regarding an integrated solid waste management plan. It was also possible to identify, in the study by Zon et al (2020), some factors responsible for the poor performance of the systems: precarious occupational health and safety conditions of waste pickers organized in cooperatives; low recovery rate of recyclable materials; high cost of selective collection; and lack of a fee to finance the collection program. These are problems faced in common by municipalities in different states and in Volta Redonda.…”

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“…Previous Brazilian studies have evaluated municipal selective collection systems by means of sustainability indicators. Among these are Barros and Silveira (2019), Fratta et al (2019), Ibáñez-Forés et al (2019, Silva et al (2019) and Zon et al (2020). Common problems have been identified by performance assessment, such as a lack of complete and reliable information, the low recovery of recyclable wastes in selective collection systems and low residential coverage, as well as waste picker cooperatives operating under precarious conditions.…”

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Sustainability performance evaluation of municipal selective collection systems applied to a case study

Guabiroba

Jacobi

Abegão

et al. 2023

Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Ambient.

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Despite the existence of several waste recycling initiatives in Brazil, the national average of recyclable material recovery rates still remains below 3%. In this context, it is necessary to diagnose the performance of systems to implement improvement actions, considering the particularities of each system. In this study, we describe the application of a method capable of diagnosing the effectiveness of selective collection systems by identifying a general sustainability index, calculated based on 16 performance indicators. The study focused on the city of Volta Redonda and was organized into three stages: identification of the performance evaluation method; data collection and calculation of indicators; and calculation of the sustainability index. The index value found for the city was 0.47, which represents an unfavorable level of sustainability. In this case, Volta Redonda is making insufficient investments in its selective waste collection system. The factors that contributed to this low index are: an outdated solid waste management plan, low collection coverage, low recovery rate of recyclable materials, high rejection rate, high selective collection cost, outdated cost of selective collection service, precarious occupational health and safety conditions of members of waste picker cooperatives, and lack of registration of residences for donation of recyclable materials.

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Sustainability performance evaluation of municipal selective collection systems applied to a case study

Guabiroba

Jacobi

Abegão

et al. 2023

Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Ambient.

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“…Several studies propose solutions or paths for MSWRP management improvement, by considering: value aggregation to marketed materials (Fidelis et al, 2015); MSWRP life cycle analysis (Gu et al, 2017); cooperativism (Tirado-Soto and Zamberlan, 2013; Medina, 2000); possible relationships between the circular economy and informal sector (Gutberlet et al, 2017; Miranda et al, 2020); presentation of indicators for improving the MSWM (Bringhenti et al, 2011; Zon et al, 2020); integration of the informal sector into formal sector (Fei et al, 2016; Marco-Ferreira and Fidelis, 2022; Velis et al, 2012; Wang et al, 2020); reverse logistics models (Coelho et al, 2011; Li and Tee, 2012); analysis of cooperative performance (Fidelis and Colmenero, 2018; Fidelis et al, 2017); example in which the privatization of MSWM is not the solution (Sandhu et al, 2017); about recycling rates (Challcharoenwattana and Pharino, 2016; Ferronato et al, 2019; King and Gutberlet, 2013); referring to information and communication technology and the informal sector (Ferronato et al, 2020b); relating the informal sector and the United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals (Gutberlet, 2021).…”

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Municipal solid waste management with recyclable potential in developing countries: Current scenario and future perspectives

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Municipal solid waste (MSW) is a complex challenge to be solved worldwide, intensified in developing countries since in addition to economic and environmental aspects there is also the social aspect represented by the collector individual. From an integrative bibliographic review this study longitudinally analyses the socio-productive inclusion of collectors in the municipal solid waste management (MSWM) at an international level. Aiming: (a) to identify relevant articles describing/studies on MSWM with social inclusion of scavengers around the world; (b) to analyse these articles in order to present its main characteristics; (c) to describe municipal solid waste management with recyclable potential (MSWRP) with socio-productive inclusion of collectors; (d) the study provides a more detailed summary of MSWRP management in some developing countries: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan; and (e) to provide a framework indicating the future practices and perspectives of MSWRP. As result, this study presents the paradigms and future questions for an effective improvement of WSWM, such as: Professional Training of Scavengers, Cultural Issues, Empowerment of Scavenger, Recycling Cooperatives and Cooperativism, Policy Issues and Recycling Chain, Management Systems and Process Improvement, Quality of Services Provided, Circular Economy and Informal Sector, Health Quality and Safety at Work, Barriers and Solutions for the Inclusion of the Informal Sector, Environmental, Economic and Social Benefits.

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“…En las municipalidades de Lima, la gestión ambiental es una integración favorable hacia el desarrollo sostenible en cuanto a las política pública de las municipalidades, siendo esta investigación una contribución al bienestar de la salud pública de toda la ciudadanía; es por ello que los resultados obtenidos fueron verídicos sobre las variables de la gestión ambiental, la ecoeficiencia de los trabajadores, así como la optimización de los residuos sólidos, con toda la información obtenida se logró conocer la realidad y así mejorar la conservación del medio ambiente, encontrado por Nogueira et al (10) una estadística muy similar a la de esta investigación, en donde se analizaron la correlación entre pares, para la construcción de gráficos se realizó el coeficiente de correlación, así mismo se aplicaron pruebas de normalidad, teniendo como resultado una propuesta metodológica para potenciar y desarrollar buenas prácticas de sostenibilidad.…”

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Enviromental health, Environmental management, eco-efficiency and its relationship with the optimization of solid waste

Valderrama

Caballero-Cantu

Ramirez

et al. 2023

Salud Cienc. Tecnol.

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This research aimed to determine the relationship between environmental management, eco-efficiency of municipal workers, and the optimization of solid waste. A quantitative applied study was conducted, using a non-experimental design with a causal correlational scope and a cross-sectional approach. The population consisted of 340 collaborators from the solid waste management sub-department of a municipality in Lima, using a convenience probabilistic sample of 191 collaborators. The information for this study was obtained through three instruments, from which acceptable reliability levels were obtained through the Cronbach's alpha statistical process. The results of this research confirmed the proposed hypotheses, showing that environmental management and the eco-efficiency of workers significantly influence the optimization of solid waste, obtaining a zero-order partial correlation with a value of 0.763 and p-value=0.000. These results were given through the indicators of the logistic regression used with the Nagelkerke pseudo R-squared model (0.861), which explains the level of influence of the variables on the optimization of solid waste.

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Waste pickers organizations and municipal selective waste collection: Sustainability indicators

Cited by 24 publications

References 34 publications

Sustainability performance evaluation of municipal selective collection systems applied to a case study

Sustainability performance evaluation of municipal selective collection systems applied to a case study

Municipal solid waste management with recyclable potential in developing countries: Current scenario and future perspectives

Enviromental health, Environmental management, eco-efficiency and its relationship with the optimization of solid waste

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