Solid Waste Management and Social Inclusion of Wastepickers
Opportunities and Challenges
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4500032 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marta Marello, Ann Helwege |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 108-129 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x17726083 |
| OpenAlex | W2747066917 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 17 |
As informal workers, wastepickers gather recyclable material without adequate social benefits and occupational protection. In response to wastepicker demands for legalization and access to the waste stream, cities have created inclusion programs to improve livelihoods and promote recycling. While inclusion yields benefits for many participants, it brings challenges at each step of development. In the poorest countries, workers lack the skills, capital, and managerial experience to operate profitably, while projects in wealthier cities employ few wastepickers and face stiff competition from the formal sector. The most sophisticated municipal systems mechanize waste processing and threaten wastepickers' livelihoods because capital-intensive methods yield few jobs. To realize genuine inclusion, policies to support wastepickers must enable workers to compete throughout the broader economy.Como trabajadores informales, los recolectores de basura se encargan de recoger materiales reciclables sin prestaciones sociales o protección laboral adecuadas. En respuesta a sus demandas de legalización y acceso al flujo de residuos, las ciudades han creado programas de inclusión para mejorar las condiciones de vida y promover el reciclaje. Mientras que dicha inclusión brinda beneficios a muchos participantes, también conlleva retos en cada etapa del desarrollo. En los países más pobres, los trabajadores carecen de las habilidades, capital y experiencia administrativa necesarias para operar de manera rentable, mientras que los proyectos en las ciudades más ricas emplean pocos recolectores que enfrentan una dura competencia por parte del sector formal. Los sistemas municipales más sofisticados mecanizan el procesamiento de los desechos y amenazan los medios de subsistencia de los recolectores dado que los métodos intensivos en capital generan pocos puestos de trabajo. Para que haya una genuina inclusión, las políticas de apoyo a los recolectores de basura deben permitir que dichos trabajadores compitan en el grueso de la economía
Agriculture · Art · Business · Capital (architecture) · Economics · Geography · Humanities · Inclusion (mineral) · Livelihood · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Welfare economics · Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management · Municipal Solid Waste Management · Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
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Global review of human waste-picking and its contribution to poverty alleviation and a circular economy
Waste governance and campus sustainability
Waste management in a more unequal world
Network power and exclusion of informal waste pickers when plastic flows change
Linking wastes and climate change
The case for a climate bonus
Wasters, agnostics, enforcers, competitors, and community integrators
Retracted Article
Thinking Households—How Resident Conceptualisations of Waste, Reclaimers and Separation at Source Shape Recycling Practices
Saúde ambiental
Waste picker organizations in recycling systems in latin american cases towards social inclusion in circular economy
Permission to appropriate
Social Networks Within the City
What a Waste
Collection of municipal solid waste in developing countries
Developing urban waste management in Brazil with waste picker organizations
Self-employed Proletarians in an informal factory
Role of informal sector recycling in waste management in developing countries
Assessing urban recycling in low- and middle-income countries
From “cartoneros” to “recolectores urbanos”. The changing rhetoric and urban waste management policies in neoliberal Buenos Aires
The Urban Informal Sector
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |