Theme: Inclusive Recycling and Waste Management

Integrating Informal Workers into Selective Waste Collection: The Case of Belo Horizonte, Brazil

This Briefing Note explores the origin and key elements of public policy focused on the integration of waste pickers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil....

Waste Pickers: Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

Recycling in Belo Horizonte, Brazil – An Overview of Inclusive Programming

Brazil is one of the world’s most progressive countries in integrating waste pickers in solid waste management systems, and Belo Horizonte...

One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Treasure: A Comparative Analysis of Property Rights in Solid Waste

In this paper, the author argues that any system of legal rules that tries to exclude the waste pickers from the waste value chain results...

Informação e trabalho: uma leitura sobre os catadores de material reciclável a partir das bases públicas de dados

Proceso de integración de los cartoneros de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Del reconocimiento a la gestión de Centros Verdes y la recolección selectiva

En Argentina, y en particular en su Capital Federal (Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires / CABA), la problemática asociada a los recolectores...

Belo Horizonte Selective Waste Collection Programme

Visão geral dos Instrumentos Legais para a Inclusão de Recicladores Informais na Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos no Brasil

Waste and Citizenship Forums – Achievements and Limitations

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Integração de Trabalhadores Informais na Coleta Seletiva de Recicláveis: o Caso de Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Esta nota informativa traz uma análise mais detalhada sobre a gênese e os elementos chaves da política pública voltada para a integração...