Waste-recycling as a livelihood in the informal sector. The example of refuse collectors in Cairo

Meyer, Gunter H.

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“…Relatively, little had been written on informal recycling in 1970, or indeed during the 1970s and 1980s (e.g. (Meyer, 1987)), so this important subject is returned to in Part B, under ‘Progress in the Global South’.…”

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Learning from the past to plan for the future: An historical review of the evolution of waste and resource management 1970–2020 and reflections on priorities 2020–2030 – The perspective of an involved witness

Wilson

2023

Waste Manag Res

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Improving waste and resource management (WaRM) around the world can halve the weight of plastics entering the oceans, significantly mitigate global heating and contribute directly to 12 of 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs). Achieving such results demands understanding and learning from historical evolution of WaRM. The baseline is 1970, prior to environmental legislation. Early steps in the Global North focused on the ‘technical fix’ within strictly enforced legal frameworks, first bringing hazardous wastes and municipal solid wastes (MSW) under control, then gradually ramping up environmental standards. Using modern technologies to the Global South often failed due to institutional and financial constraints. From 1990, focus switched to integrating technical and governance aspects: local institutional coherence, financial sustainability, provider inclusivity, user inclusivity, national legislative and policy framework. The Global North rediscovered recycling, using policy measures to promote segregation at source; this relied on new markets in emerging economies, which had largely disappeared by 2020. The Global South is making progress on bringing wastes under control, but around 2.7 billion people lack access to waste collection, while ~40% of collected MSW is open dumped or burned – a continuing global waste emergency. So, much remains to be done to move further towards a circular economy. Three policy priorities are critical for all countries: access to sustainable financing, rethinking sustainable recycling and worldwide extended producer responsibility with teeth. Extending services to unserved communities (SDG11.6.1) requires a people-centred approach, working with communities to provide both quality services and decent livelihoods for collection and recycling workers.

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Learning from the past to plan for the future: An historical review of the evolution of waste and resource management 1970–2020 and reflections on priorities 2020–2030 – The perspective of an involved witness

Wilson

2023

Waste Manag Res

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“…Группа западных ученых (Barr, Gilg, Ford, 2001;Guagnano, Stern, Dietz, 1995) анализировала связи между экологическими намерениями и практиками, подчеркивая, что к одному и тому же действию могут приводит совершенно разные намерения -в данном случае экологически активных граждан важна сохранность природы и улучшения качества жизни, или влияние референтной группы. Отходы человек сортирует сам, сдает только в те компании, которые занимаются переработкой или являются поставщиками переработчиков, признавая за собой урон, наносимый ОС, стремиться его минимизировать Meyer, 1987). Индивид находится в гармонии в отношении по-НАУЧНЫЙ РЕЗУЛЬТАТ.…”

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Transformation of social and environmental practices of waste management in the mentality of Russian citizens

Ermolaeva¹

2021

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“…The industrial revolution and accompanying waves of urbanisation in Europe and North America in the middle of the 19 th century brought an intensification of overpopulation and overcrowding in urban areas to earlier unknown levels, fostering new and overwhelming challenges in solid waste management and sanitation. This, coupled with poverty, drove some of the urban poor in European and American cities to separate and pick the valuable items within the heaps of waste in the cities to sell for a living (Wilson et al, 2015b;Louis, 2004;Velis et al, 2009); a practice which still occurs in cities of developing and lesser developed countries to this day (Meyer, 2019;Velis, 2017;Scheinberg et al, 2010b).…”

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Evidence-based pathway for solid waste modernisation and sustainability in Ghana

Oduro-Appiah

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Waste-recycling as a livelihood in the informal sector. The example of refuse collectors in Cairo

Cited by 3 publications

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Learning from the past to plan for the future: An historical review of the evolution of waste and resource management 1970–2020 and reflections on priorities 2020–2030 – The perspective of an involved witness

Learning from the past to plan for the future: An historical review of the evolution of waste and resource management 1970–2020 and reflections on priorities 2020–2030 – The perspective of an involved witness

Transformation of social and environmental practices of waste management in the mentality of Russian citizens

Evidence-based pathway for solid waste modernisation and sustainability in Ghana

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