Urban Recycling Cooperatives

Urban Recycling Cooperatives explores the multiple narratives and interdisciplinary nature of waste studies, drawing attention to the pressing social, economic and environmental challenges related to waste management. The book asks questions such as: how do we define waste and our relation to it; who is involved in dealin

Jutta Gutberlet is Associate Professor in the Geography Department at the University of Victoria, Canada.

Table of Contents Chapter 1: Waste governance: an introduction Chapter 2: Situated theoretical framework for waste governance Chapter 3: Participatory community-based research: theory and praxis Chapter 4: From hazardous informal recycling to decent working conditions Chapter 5: The social aspects of waste Chapter 6: Health and risk factors for informal waste pickers Chapter 7: Recycling the organic fraction of household waste Chapter 8: Contributions to climate change mitigation: Environmental benefits from the work of waste pickers Chapter 9: Different ways of managing waste: from neoliberal to cooperative approaches Chapter 10: Final outlook: a world without waste References