Emília Wanda Rutkowski

Expanding worldwide urban solid waste recycling: The Brazilian social technology in waste pickers inclusion

‘If an integrated urban waste management system includes the informal recycling sector (IRS), there is a good chance that more solid waste is recycled’ is common sense. However, informal integration brings additional social, environmental, and economic benefits, such as reduction of operational costs and environmental impacts of landfilling. Brazil is a global best practice example in terms of waste picker inclusion, and has received international recognition for its recycling levels. In addition to analysing the results of inclusive recycling approaches, this article evaluates a selection of the best Brazilian inclusive recycling practices and summaries and presents the resulting knowledge. The objective is to identify processes that enable the replication of the inclusion of the informal recycling sector model as part of municipal solid waste management. Qualitative and quantitative data have been collected in 25 Brazilian cities that have contracted waste pickers co-operatives for door-to-door selective collection of recyclables. Field data was collected in action research projects that worked with waste pickers co-operatives between 2006 and 2013. The Brazilian informal recycling sector integration model improves municipal solid waste recycling indicators: it shows an increase in the net tonness recycled, from 140 to 208 t month-1, at a much lower cost per tonne than conventional selective collection systems. Inclusive systems show costs of US

Bacia ambiental como matriz pedagógica: uma experiência formativa

35 per tonne of recyclables collected, well below the national average of US

SUSTAINABLE LOGISTICS PLATFORMIN A REGIONAL BRAZILIAN AIRPORT

195.26. This inclusive model improves the quality of collected material and the efficiency of municipal selective collection. It also diminishes the negative impacts of informal recycling, by reducing child labour, and by improving the conditions of work, occupational health and safety, and uncontrolled pollution. Although treating the Brazilian experience as a blueprint for transfer of experience in every case is unrealistic, the results suggest that this approach to informal sector integration can be considered among the global best practices for informal sector integration. The article closes with recommendations for deploying technology in other urban areas throughout the world.

Sustainable Logistics Platform In A Regional Brazilian Airport

O presente texto tem como objetivo principal apresentar desenvolvimento de processo formativo para capacitar agentes tecnicos comunitarios de companhia de saneamento com o uso da Bacia Ambiental como matriz pedagogica. Desta forma, quatro modulos compuseram o desenvolvimento do projeto, a saber: I – Identidade e Territorio: no qual foram trabalhados conceitos diretamente relacionados a bacia hidrografica, bem como discutidos os arcaboucos legais que guardam relacao com o meio ambiente, os recursos hidricos, o saneamento basico, os residuos solidos e afins; II – Visita Monitorada: relacionando o modulo anterior a visita na Bacia de forma que os agentes compreendessem a gestao do territorio para alem da dicotomia teoria-pratica; III - Educacao Ambiental: discussao de como dialogar com a comunidade considerando o contexto complexo consolidado pelos modulos anteriores; e IV – Confeccao de maquete: atraves de uma atividade ludica trabalharam e refletiram sobre o conhecimento apropriado e o papel de agente comunitario. Apos o conjunto de modulos realizado, os agentes comunitarios reconheceram a implicacao do uso do territorio e de como sua leitura pode e deve ser feita para a concretizacao de resultados na composicao de cenarios futuros desejaveis, ou seja, formas de colaborar no processo de gestao dos territorios.

Recycling in Brasil: Paper and Plastic Supply Chain

Designing a sustainable logistics platform concept based on different applications of global airport logistics platforms and industrial ecology principles is the aim of this paper. This concept has been developed for a southern Brazilian application [Campinas Metropolitan Region, Sao Paulo state]. A balance between the logistics activities and the environmental constraints on business viability is established by the design guidelines.