{"id":422,"date":"2012-11-25T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basurama.org\/transtrash\/?p=422"},"modified":"2012-11-26T00:31:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T05:31:55","slug":"waste-pickers-topic-at-the-waste-reading-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.basurama.org\/transtrash\/2012\/11\/25\/waste-pickers-topic-at-the-waste-reading-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste Pickers topic at The Waste reading group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-427\" href=\"https:\/\/basurama.org\/transtrash\/2012\/11\/25\/waste-pickers-topic-at-the-waste-reading-group\/recycling-value-chain\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-427\" src=\"https:\/\/basurama.org\/transtrash\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/5\/files\/sites\/5\/2012\/11\/recycling-value-chain.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the third meeting of the Waste reading group at MIT we will be talking about &#8220;waste pickers&#8221;. Everyone is welcome!<\/p>\n<p>When:\u00a0Monday, November 26, 9-10:30am,<br \/>\nWhere: E14-240 (Media Lab, second floor). MIT. Cambridge, MA. USA<br \/>\nModerated by Luc\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez + Pablo Rey<\/p>\n<p>This is the list of readings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The report of the global meeting of waste pickers this year: Global Strategic Workshop for Waste Pickers. Pune 2012\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/globalrec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/report_waste-pickers-workshop_pune2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/globalrec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/report_waste-pickers-workshop_pune2012.pdf<\/a>, more info\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/globalrec.org\/global-meeting\/global-strategic-workshop-waste-pickers-pune\/\" target=\"_blank\">in the workshop site<\/a> at +\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/globalrec.org\/2012\/09\/26\/video-space-for-wastepickers-in-solid-waste-management-just-released\/\" target=\"_blank\">video included<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Informal Sector Integration and HighPerformance Recycling: Evidence from 20 Cities&#8221; Anne Scheinberg 2012\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wiego.org\/sites\/wiego.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/5\/files\/sites\/5\/publications\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/5\/files\/sites\/5\/Scheinberg_WIEGO_WP23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wiego.org\/sites\/wiego.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/5\/files\/sites\/5\/publications\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/5\/files\/sites\/5\/Scheinberg_WIEGO_WP23.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interesting quote about the work of waste pickers and their environmental benefits in the Anne Scheinberg text:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Informal valorization is a direct economic benefit to the informal valorizers, many of whom would otherwise\u00a0have no work. It also creates positive externalities for municipal authorities, by reducing the amounts\u00a0of materials requiring disposal, diminishing the CO2 footprint of the solid waste system, and improving\u00a0performance of disposal facilities (Ansch\u00fctz and Scheinberg 2004; Scheinberg, Simpson and Gupt 2007;\u00a0Chaturvedi 2009; Scheinberg, Wilson and Rodic 2010; Medina 1997).<\/p>\n<p>These benefits are threatened by modernization, especially when cities think that they can \u201cget rich\u201d\u00a0off of \u201cthe gold in the garbage.\u201d When cities in low-income countries commit to \u201crecycling,\u201d the result is\u00a0often conflict over resources and access to the waste materials. Instead of a virtuous circle of increasing\u00a0economic and environmental benefits, modernization may create a vicious circle of competition for\u00a0resources, conflicts between public and private sector, interrupted supply chain relationships, and a\u00a0decline in resource recovery and its associated benefits (Scheinberg 2011).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the third meeting of the Waste reading group at MIT we will be talking about &#8220;waste pickers&#8221;. Everyone is welcome! When:\u00a0Monday, November 26, 9-10:30am, Where: E14-240 (Media Lab, second floor). MIT. Cambridge, MA. USA Moderated by Luc\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez + Pablo Rey This is the list of readings: The report of the global meeting of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","tag-waste-reading-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.basurama.org\/transtrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.basurama.org\/transtrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.basurama.org\/transtrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.basurama.org\/transtrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.basurama.org\/transtrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.basurama.org\/transtrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/archive.basurama.org\/transtrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.basurama.org\/transtrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.basurama.org\/transtrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.basurama.org\/transtrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}