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    Give Back Our Waste

    Summary from Chintan: Waste-to-Energy (WtE), the process of creating energy from waste, has gained broad appeal domestically and internationally...

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  • Journal Articles

    Feminizing Waste: Waste-Picking as an Empowerment Opportunity for Women and Children in Impoverished CommunitiesColorado Journal of Environmental Law and Policy

    The crisis of excessive waste in developing countries, coupled with a high rate of poverty, has created an abundant labor force of wastepickers...

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    Not to be Taken for Granted: What Informal Waste Pickers Offer the Urban Economy

    WIEGO Waste Sector Specialist Sonia Dias argues for a holistic approach to solid waste management that recognises the economic and environmental...

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    Gender and informal livelihoods: Coping strategies and perceptions of waste pickers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America

    This article (read the abstract here) was published in a special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. The special...

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    Respect for Recyclers: Protecting the Climate through Zero Waste

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    Trajetόrias e Memόrias dos Fόruns Lixo e Cidadania No Brasil: Experimentos Singulares de Justiça Social e Governança Participativa

    Summary available in English here.

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    Trajectories and Memories – Waste and Citizenship Forums: Unique Experiments of Social Justice and Participatory Governance

    Summary of PhD Thesis by Sonia Maria Dias. Full thesis available in Portuguese here.

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    Learning to Re-E-Cycle

    Published by Chintan

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    On the Road to Zero Waste

    This set of zero waste case studies profiles nine diverse communities, each providing a real-world example of authentic progress toward the...

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  • Journal Articles

    Il sapere urbano del clasificadores (The knowledge of urban recyclers) Lo Squaderno Urban Knowledges, Explorations in Space and Society

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