Waste – pickers

With a global urban population of three billion, cities are currently generating around 1.3 billion tons of waste every year (The World Bank 2012). By 2050 cities, most of them in the South, will account for two thirds of global demographic growth, producing even greater volumes of waste.

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Waste can be an opportunity for cities to meet social and environmental goals. This paper is based on research carried out by Dias (2002 and 2009) and explores the main features of the system designed by Belo Horizonte city which integrated cooperatives of informal waste pickers into its municipal recycling system. The paper reviews its genesis of organizing, the main dimensions of the recycling system, the work specialization within cooperatives and main impacts of this integrated system.

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It must be remembered, however, that the number of Acts is not a conclusive test of the amount of enclosure, as there was a large amount that was non-parliamentary: by the principal landlord, and by freeholders who agreed to amicable changes and transfer, as at Pickering, in Yorkshire.[563] Roughly speaking, about one-third of the Acts were for enclosing commonable waste, the rest for enclosing open and commonable fields and lands.[564] Owing to the expense an Act was only obtained in the last resource.

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