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Binning Through Victoria (2009)

This video, produced by the Community-based Research Laboratory (CBRL) at the University of Victoria, in collaboration with the MOTHER’s project, highlights a Participatory Video project conducted with Binners in Victoria, Canada. Documenting the experiences and challenges of some Binners, these individuals reveal their lives on a tour of their ‘traplines’ and participate in the distribution of specifically designed tent-trailers to improve their quality of life. This project is part of a larger research initiative focusing on the livelihoods of informal and organized recyclers in different countries of the world.

Producers: Dr, Jutta Gutberlet and Crystal Tremblay

Editing: Rose Henry, Crystal Tremblay, Jutta Gutberlet, and Richard Fulop.

MOTHERS Project participants: Tamara Herman, VIPIRG, Tony Hoar, Tony’s Trailers, Philippe Lucas, City Council, Rose Henry, Committee to End Homelessness, Levi Van Doren, Committee to End Homelessness, Jutta Gutberlet and Crystal Tremblay, UVic.

Funding: International Development Research Council of Canada (IDRC), VanCity Credit Union, University of Victoria, Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group (VIPIRG).

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Beyond Gramacho (2009)

Beyond Gramacho reveals the socio-economic and environmental conditions, struggles and opportunities that are present in informal resource recovery. Over 1800 Catadores work day and night at the landfill and neighboring recycling cooperatives, recovering recyclable materials from the waste stream. Almost at its capacity, Gramacho receives about 7,000 metric tons of waste every day, not only from Rio de Janeiro and Duque de Caxias but also from the neighboring municipalities.

This video takes you through the residential area, a squatter settlement beside the landfill, where many of the Catadores and their families live. The video portrays the sad reality of the extreme poverty and exclusion this community faces. As meager as this work is, it is for many the only life they have known, and the proposed closure of the landfill poses a major threat to their livelihoods. The video illustrates the growing national social movement of Catadores, the Movimento Nacional dos Catadores, and showcases some successful experiences from the Greater Metropolitan Region of São Paulo.

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Alem de Gramacho (2009)

Além de Gramacho revela as condições sócio-econômicas e ambientais, e as dificuldades e oportunidades presentes na recuperação de materiais recicláveis. Mais de 1800 catadores trabalham dia e noite no aterro e nas cooperatives de reciclagem, recuperando materias provenientes do lixo. Quase já em sua capacidade total, o aterro Gramacho recebe em média 7.000 toneladas de lixo por dia, não apenas do Rio de Janeiro e de Duque de Caxias, más também de todos os outros municípios vizinhos.

O documentário levará o espectador a visitar uma área residencial, um assentamento, ao lado do aterro, onde muitos dos catadores habitam com suas familias. Tal visita, ilustra a triste realidade de extrema pobreza e exclusão social que esta comunidade enfrenta. Mesmo limitada, esta é a única realidade que eles conhecem, e a proposta de fechamento do aterro representa uma grande ameaça para suas sobrevivências. O vídeo ilustra o crescimento do movimento social dos catadores, e mostra algumas experiências de êxito que estäo ocorrendo na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo.

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