Gestión de Residuos Sólidos Urbanos, un Abordaje Territorial desde la Perspectiva de la Inclusión Social, el Trabajo y la Producción

The politics of waste picking: reflections from the upscaling of a co-management model for recyclable waste in Buenos Aires (Argentina)

“…"Integrated" management proposed systemic changes in the consumption-disposal relationship based on establishing a hierarchy of the actions prior to final disposal, which included encouraging the reduction of generation, promoting reuse, as well as recovery through the recycling of different waste streams (Marshall & Khosrow, 2013). A decade later, boosted by multilateral credit agencies, the ISWM model was deployed in Latin American countries such as Colombia (Rúa-Restrepo et.al., 2019); Uruguay (Chabalgoity, 2004); Brazil and Argentina (Brandão & Gutiérrez, 2018). The implementation of the ISWM model in these contexts can be understood in terms of a process of vernacularization of the ISWM model that implied its adaptation to specific conditions, such as the overlap of jurisdictional powers, the absence of a specific normative framework, and the presence of populations dedicated to the so-called "informal recycling" (Sorroche, 2016).…”